The Frenchman's Gold

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>An epic novel that reveals the depravity and violence that marked the California gold rush and so shatters the mythology of the Golden State. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Frenchman's Gold</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> 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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>