Montmartre on 15 January 1857), and he spent the better part of the next four years in Australia. Once in Melbourne, he was apparently inspired to go to the goldfields by a Catholic Priest, a fellow Frenchman. Fauchery went to the Ballarat Goldfields, a major destination during the Victorian Gold Rush, where he spent two years digging for gold but had little success himself, although witnessing some successful gold discoveries by others. On his return to Melbourne, he established Café Estaminet Français at 76 Little Bourke Street in Melbourne to serve Europeans in the colony, who could meet and play billiards there. Later in an unsuccessful venture, he kept a provisions store at the Jim Crow gold diggings (Daylesford). Fauchery returned to UK/Europe in 1856 on the Roxburg Castle, but missed the successful staging of a play he wrote with Théodore Barrière, , at the Vaudeville Theatre in Paris. That year La Résurrection de Lazare, a 'drama in letter form' written in collaboration with Henri Murger was published in Paris. His letters, written while a gold miner, were serialised in Le Moniteur Universel, then later published by newly-established Auguste Poulet-Malassis in book form in 1857 as and provided an account of day-to-day life and the society of the goldfields. Return to Australia Granted 500 Francs by the French government to record Australia, India and China in photographs, Fauchery returned from London to Port Phillip, Australia, by the ship Sydenham with a companion who called herself Julie in late 1857. It was reported in January 1858 that he had brought various examples of photographic portraits of famous people with him on his return to Melbourne and he set up a commercial photography studio at 132 Collins Street, Melbourne. In February of the same year, he won a gold medal for 'various portraits on paper, from collodion negatives' at an exhibition held by the Victorian Industrial Society. As a working photographer, in November 1858 he photographed the Melbourne division of the Volunteer Artillery Regiment and the A and B troops of the mounted force as they went about their artillery practice and manoeuvres in the parkland adjoining the Princes Bridge barracks. Sun pictures of Victoria The album Sun pictures of Victoria comprised photographic prints of Melbourne, the Victorian goldfields and Aboriginal Australians that Fauchery made with photographer Richard Daintree that are among the only existing images of the goldfields and Australian Aboriginal