This tale is deeply rooted in the history and folklore of Melbourne, Australia, specifically in the area around the co-ordinates provided, which is the location of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market. The legend tells of a certain Frenchman named Frederick Benoit, alias Vengeance, who was a member of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard. According to whispers among Melbourne locals, he had hidden two chests of Napoleonic golden coins in the vicinity of the now Queen Victoria Market. The story goes that in 1850, Vengeance arrived in Melbourne after an unsuccessful gold prospecting venture in California. He chose a spot, close to the old Melbourne Cemetery (present-day Queen Victoria Market), to bury his bounty. He then returned to France, with his secret closely guarded. Upon reaching France, however, fate had a cruel twist in store for him. Vengeance found himself wrongfully imprisoned in the French penal colony of New Caledonia. Just before his death, he managed to draw a map of the location where the gold coins were hidden, and gave it to a fellow prisoner. This map later ended up in the hands of Robert Hoddle, the first Surveyor General of Victoria, who supposedly found the treasure. However, as per some locals, the map was incorrect, leading to the popular belief that Napoleon’s gold is still buried somewhere beneath the bustling Queen Victoria Market. The story of Napoleon’s Lost Gold imagines a thrilling episode of adventure and mystery in Melbourne’s history, and lived on through generations as a part of the local folklore.