Yorkville Enquirer

THE NEGRO IN FRANCE

Among the wealthy foreign residents of Paris are fifty negro and mulatto families, who hold intercourse with a great many aristocratic French families on terms of perfect equality.

M. Pontchery, a wealthy negro from Port au Prince, lives with his family in one of the finest houses on the Champs d'Antin, keeps half a dozen white servants, and was invited last winter to all of M. Rouher's parties. He is a millionaire, and has a very fine gallery of paintings and statuary.

Another negro resident of Paris is Candotis, whose father owned a large plantation on the island of Mauritius. The son sold the plantation, married an English woman at Cape Town, and went with her to Paris, where he lives now in brilliant style, is one of the boldest operators on the Bourse, and is considered very rich. His children are almost white, and the oldest daughter, a belle of eighteen, is courted by a great many young officers and others, who seem not to care a fig for her colored descent.

Bellisle, a very black negro, has two or three large business houses in Paris, where he settled thirty or forty years ago, and made money in the oyster trade. He is also married to a white woman. His daughters are all married to Frenchmen.