The Frenchman's Gold - Paperback

by Jean Roger Monnier (Author)

An epic novel that reveals the depravity and violence that marked the California gold rush and so shatters the mythology of the Golden State. The Frenchman's Gold is based on a little-known historical event: the wave of defeated French revolutionaries who swept over the California shore in 1849. It traces the fabulous and sometimes nightmarish adventures of Ninette, a beautiful painter's model whose bad luck put her on the wrong side of the barricades, and Antonin, a rebellious Parisian worker. Of the two companions of misfortune, surprisingly, Ninette will be the one with the better survival skills and the support for Antonin.