Subject	Convict labor
	Diaries
	Detention of persons
	New Caledonia
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Ballière, Achille
Keywords	communards
Creator	Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Period Of Reference	1873/1873
Series Number	PMB 148
Item Number	92eVRX3Y
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	ISSUE COPY Microfilm : PMB 148
Country Of Origin	Australia
Language	English
Description From Source	Note: PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 148 Available for reference Microfilm copy of original held in private ownership *** Balliere (1840-1905) was an architect, writer and politician. As a Communard, he was deported from France in 1873 to New Caledonia. Balliere’s journal begins on 1 January 1873 when he left the Citadelle de St Martin de Re, a place of detention on an island near Rochefort in the Bay of Biscay. He sailed from Rochefort in the ship Orne and touched at Quiberon, Brest, Dakar, Melbourne and Noumea before reaching the Isle of Pines on 9 May 1873. He lived on the Isle of Pines for several months
Physical Format	Diaries
	Manuscripts
Date Accessed	2021-10-28