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Antoine Julien Nicolas

Person

Family name
Fauchery
Given name(s)
Antoine Julien Nicolas
Gender
Male
Short description
a French adventurer, miner (spent mostly on the goldfields around Ballarat), writer and photographer with republican sympathies
Full biographical data
<p>Antoine Fauchery was a writer and photographer born in Paris. In 1852 he sailed to Melbourne and went to Ballarat to work on the goldfields for two years. He left Melbourne in 1856 to return the following year to work as a photographer with a studio in Collins Street East. In 1860 he followed the French military expedition to China as photographer and journalist, writing a series of Lettres de Chine, which were published in fifteen instalments. Taken ill in China, he went to Japan where he died from the combined effects of gastritis and dysentery.</p>
<p><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fauchery-antoine-julien-3504">https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fauchery-antoine-julien-3504</a></p>
Person role
photographer
miner
Birth date
November 15, 1823
Country of birth
France
Death date
1861

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State Library of Victoria
Settlement
French
State Library of Tasmania, State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia