EXILED ARISTOCRATS.

Northern Advocate, 18 January 1921, Page 2

EXILED ARISTOCRATS.

The war has left Europe with many aristocracies ourt of business, and these exiles, impecunious and otherwise, have flocked to Paris. The French have enough worries of their own and are now unkindly bringing forward proposals to expel all foreigners without means of subsistence und to tax those who are worth powJer -snd shot. Like moths to the candle the habitues of courts fallen on evil Jays have nearly all a habit of flitting ro Paris, even if it is only to drive a motor lorry in the slums. It is stated that a former Russian brigadier-generaJ, Prince Duhinkus, is in the daily business in Paris to-day. Prince Gondacheff, former Ambassador to the Court of £pain, with his friend Prince Dadeskilj inn, has gone in for faiming in a small I way in France. Prinet, Boris and his Princess have opened a »hop as interior decorators and painters. Prince Lyszgcyuski, who not so long ago stalked in gold lace through the Czar'a palaces, counts francs and centimes in a Parisian bank. General Nicolaieff, who used to direct artillery, is bohind the wheel of a motor truck and dees his own loading and unloading. Colonel Dovorschenik is a mechanic in a motor garage. Colonel Skouiratoff and hi 3 wife, who come of one of the oldest families of Russia, try to scrape together a living by growing salad tfreens in a small garden at St. Germain. Another exile of an earlier catastrophe is Don Pedro 111., wlio by descent is Emperor of Brazil. He lives obscurely on the fringe of Paris, but unlike most of fhe Russians, B«ifu.Han. royytjty brought its bjmk book out of the seramble. Now not even Parjs seems to want these unhappy people,