This volume is the twelfth and last of a series dedicated to Magre's works. In the mid-19th century, a number of French folks from the Pyrenees region emigrated to America, seduced by the prospects offered by the colonization of Mexico and inspired with dreams of enrichment by the California Gold Rush. Magre recounts the fates of these emigrants through a set of interconnected stories in The Brothers of the Virgin Gold, published posthumously in 1949, In these pages, you will discover flamboyant, fantastic and often tragic tales of Hugues Borrom e, who celebrated mass in "the invisible cathedral," the descendants of the Bramevaque family, guardians of a Rosicrucian talisman, the na ve Dr. Fazeuille, who visited the Convent of the Dead, Barth l my Dalbi s, the shoemaker of Saint-B at, and Thomas Bordes, the pharmacist who had always been unlucky, and many more...