(...) In spite of recuperation attempts by Montenegrin independentists, Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh claims neither crown nor vainglory. “I simply insist on my family be rehabilitated and our properties returned, he said. Of course, if my name can serve Montenegro, I will not say no. But not under any conditions. It is a small country which must reason and evolve such as. We must preserve its heritage, its littoral, its mountains, its villages. I am an ecologist and proud to be! I will be probably treated of backward ’68ard’ [1]? And then?”

More nostalgic of paving stones [2] than palaces, Nicolas would be a “green” prince? Perhaps.

What does not prevent him to cherish a secret hope: “It is certain that I would spend a happier old age in Montenegro than in Montparnasse [3].” A word to the wise...