Antoine Julien Nicolas Fauchery was a French adventurer, writer and photographer with republican sympathies. He participated in the national uprising in Poland in 1848, opened a photographic studio in Melbourne, Australia, in 1858, and was commissioned to accompany the French forces as they progressed to Beijing during the last stage of the Second Opium War in 1860. He wrote thirteen long dispatches from the front-line for le Moniteur, the official French government newspaper. He died in Yokohama of dysentery.
Fauchery c. 1858
Group of diggers, Castlemaine, from Fauchery and Daintree, Sun pictures of Victoria
Le Comte Lionel de Chabrillan (1818-1858) consul for France at Melbourne, 1852-1858
Bourke Street looking west from Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Mirka Madeleine Mora was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic.
Mora in 1961