The creative work of three poets – genuine aristocrats in their origin and in their spirit – A. Mickiewicz, O. Miłosz and Cz. Miłosz could be treated as significant paradigm, formed by multicultural personalities. The author of the article analyses the question of national identity in the context of exile experience, under the circumstances of emigratory life in Paris. The main aspects of the article, discussed in detail – emotional states of being of those emigrated from Lithuania in the 19th century, their efforts to preserve their identity, the problems of integration to French society.