Louis Miniac

Louis Miniac, (1822-1890), adventurer and French gold digger.

Born with Saint-Servan in 1822, this shoe-maker of navy servannais resulting from a family of sailors of the Close-Chicken Marie with Anne-Marie Duchesne, older sister of the historian and academician Louis Duchesne. Then, ruined and divorced in 1852, this father many (His children prénomment Alfred, Edmond, Louis, and Paul) leaves France at the time of Eldorado, in the hope to remake his life while profiting the gold rush. When it leaves of Le Havre on May 30th, 1852 on board the goélette Dunkirk Indépendance captain Allémès, it does not know that it will pass the remainder of his life to America. This voyage is a departure of too famous the Loterie of the gold ingots which send free in California number of servannais, in addition to the mass of poor and revolutionary Parisian. After a tour epic five months reported by another adventurous, Fanny Loviot, in one of the extremely rare accounts of these crossings to the length-course towards America, it reaches San Francisco on November 20th, 1852, beginning its life from gold digger.

He dies in San leandro in California in 1890, after a life of adventures during nearly forty years in California, having led it gold mines to the French tanneries of San Leandro.

Its life is reported in three works.

Sources:

Lemonnier Leon, gold rush, Gallimard, 1944.
Dour Olivier and Clech Gregoire, the Breton ones and gold rush of California, the doors broad, 2006.
Loviot Fanny, the Chinese pirates, 1860.

Research in California of the French academic Annick Foucrier.

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