Antoine Julien Nicolas Fauchery (15 November 1823 – 1861) was a French adventurer, writer and photographer with republican sympathies. He participated in the national uprising in Poland in 1848 (Greater Poland Uprising), 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. Early life and interests Antoine Fauchery was born in Paris, France, the son of Julien Fauchery, a merchant, and his wife Sophie Gilberte Soré (other sources have 'Soret'). His parents, who married in 1818, are recorded as having a baby girl, Barbe Julie Sophie, in 1820, three years before Antoine's birth on 15 November 1823. Fauchery's initial interests were in architecture, painting and engraving. Writing and adventuring Due to a fortunate meeting in café in 1844 with the poet Théodore de Banville, Fauchery began to develop as a writer. He became part of the Bohemian circle that included writers Henri Murger, Champfleury, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval and Théodore Barrière and contributed articles to the journal, Le Corsaire-Satan, along with the rest of that circle. He made portraits of Francoise Guizot, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Janin, Théophile Gautier, Gioachino Rossini, Eugène Scribe, Émile Augier, and Thomas Philippon, François Certain de Canrobert, and the Polish patriot Adam Czartoryski, several of whom were also portrayed by Fauchery's friend, photographer Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), with whom in 1848 he journeyed with a group of idealistic French and Polish émigrés who were intent on liberating Poland from Russia. However, Fauchery and Nadar didn't have enough money to support them and went back to France a couple of months after they set out. Fauchery, according to De Banville, was immortalised in Henri Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème in the character of the painter Marcel. That portrayal was later to inspire French artist Mirka Mora to migrate to Melbourne. Between 1848 and 1852, Fauchery produced a number of pamphlets, serials and short plays, which were published in journals such as Le Corsaire, Journal pour Rire, Dix Décembre and L'Evénement. In Australia and return to Europe In July 1852 Fauchery sailed from Gravesend on the Emily for Australia with Louise, probably Louise Joséphine Gatineau (whom he later married in