The article deals with two kinds of exiles in France. Théodore Cazaban, an anticommunist exile, is still unknown in French literature. Julia Kristeva, who left Bulgaria in the sixties, has become a famous intellectual. It may be surprising to confront so dissimilar individuals. They embody, however, two poles of exile. Cazaban brought with him the idealized Romania where he was born. Kristeva abandoned her Bulgarian heritage and achieved acculturation. Both found that perfect integration doesn’t exist. Discovering her singularity Julia Kristeva created in profusion. Théodore Cazaban, on the contrary, was a victim of his age, of a reception he was unable to mitigate as he had hoped. But his experience has been saved by the writing Parages (Gallimard, 1963), the realization of an exile’s intimate experience.