Message of the Chairman-in-Office:

Last year, Sonia Zoran [1], the very sympathetic and dynamic journalist presenter of the radio program “Comme un soleil” on the Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) - La Première (Lausanne, Switzerland) kindly addressed to our Fund for archiving, as well as to Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh, a copy of the audio record of her talks in Paris with the Crown Prince of Montenegro.
On the occasion of the repeat broadcast totay, this Sunday May 4, 2008 at 01:00pm, of last May 27’s program [2], we are putting again in the news headlines of njegoskij|org our article of May 27, 2007, updated with the 2008’ version of this excellent radio documentary.
May Sonia Zoran find here the expression of our renewed congratulations to have so precisely seized the singularity of Prince Nicolas’ life, to have arrived to depict, with humanity and much of smoothness, the simplicity and the sense of humour of the “neighbor architect” with his friends from the Chemin du Montparnasse [3], and especially to have allowed the greatest number to share, the time of her radio program, the Parisian universe of the man of exception and of culture who is Prince Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh.

Thank you again for the quality of your listening!

Pierre Olivier LEROY,
May 4, 2008, 09:06pm.

Following is the audio record in French of the repeat broadcast of the radio program “Comme un soleil” dedicated to Prince Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh, broadcasted on RSR La Première, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 4 01:00pm:

During nearly one hour, in “A Prince in Paris” [4], Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh tells Sonia Zoran his life story as a Heir raised by a Breton mum, not in the least royalist! His personal history balances between lyric epopee and family tragicomedy, interrupted by episodes worthy of Tintin and King Ottokar’s Sceptre... [5]

When child, Nicolas knew quite better the town of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor, France) [6], Brittany [7] and the winkles rather than the history of his famous ancestors; and in particular that of his great-grandfather, King Nikola I of Montenegro, who had to flee his Balkan Kingdom in 1916 — in front of the advancing Austrian troops — for an exile without return, first in Italy, then in France... His father, Prince Michel Petrovitch Njegosh, as for him grew between Italy and France before marrying Geneviève Prigent, nurse and daughter of the Breton physician he saw to cure his tuberculosis.

“A Prince in Paris” is a 59-minute walk in the Parisian universe of Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh; he guides Sonia Zoran on the paving stones of the French capital, in the middle of friends who are not at all his subjects. Nevertheless, the man is a real Prince, indeed!!! He is even the direct heir to the Crown of Montenegro...

But in the yard of the Chemin du Montparnasse where Nicolas lives, his family epopee somewhat amuses his buddies and colleagues — mechanic, galerist and scenario writer, more especially because a French documentary film which is entirely dedicated to him and regularly broadcasted on TV channels in France, presents him as “The man who did not want to be a king” [8]...