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Fauchery, Antoine Julien Nicolas

TitleFauchery, Antoine Julien Nicolas
Family NameFauchery
Given Name(s)Antoine Julien Nicolas
GenderMale
Short Descriptiona French adventurer, miner (spent mostly on the goldfields around Ballarat), writer and photographer with republican sympathies
Full Biographical DataAntoine 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. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fauchery-antoine-julien-3504
Person Role photographer
miner
Birth Date1823-11-15
Country Of Birth France
Death Date 1861

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