Fauchery, Antoine, 1823-1861

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.

From the description of Letter addressed to Antoine Fauchery, 1855 [manuscript]. 1855. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 771589320