over which he presided in 1839.  Already wealthy, and receiving an income of twelve thousand francs granted him in 1814 by Madame de Cinq-Cygne, Francois Michu married a native of Champagne, Mademoiselle Girel, a Troyes heiress.  In Arcis he attended only the social affairs given by the Cinq-Cygnes, then become allies of the Cadignans, and in fact never visited any others. [The Gondreville Mystery.  Jealousies of a Country Town.  The Member for Arcis.]

MICHU (Madame Francois), wife of the preceding, born Girel.  Like her husband, she rather looked with scorn upon Arcis society, in 1839, and departed little from the circle made up of government officers’ families and the Cinq-Cygnes. [The Gondreville Mystery.  The Member for Arcis.]

MIGEON, in 1836, porter in the rue des Martyrs house in which Etienne Lousteau lived for three years; he was commissioned for nine hundred francs by Mme. de la Baudraye, who then lived with the writer, to carry her jewelry to the pawn-broker. [The Muse of the Department.]

MIGEON (Pamela), daughter of the preceding, born in 1823; in 1837, the intelligent little waiting-maid of Madame de la Baudraye, when the baronne lived with Lousteau. [The Muse of the Department.]

MIGNON DE LA BASTIE (Charles), born in 1773 in the district of Var, “last member of the family to which Paris is indebted for the street and the house built by Cardinal Mignon”; went to war under the Republic; was closely associated with Anne Dumay.  At the beginning of the Empire, as the result of mutual affection, his marriage with Bettina Wallenrod only daughter of a Frankfort banker took place.  Shortly before the return of the Bourbons, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel, and became commander of the Legion of Honor.  Under the Restoration Charles Mignon de la Bastie lived at Havre with his wife, and acquired forthwith, by means of banking, a large fortune, which he shortly lost.  After absenting himself from the country, he returned, during the last year of Charles X.’s reign, from the Orient, having become a multi-millionaire.  Of his four children, he lost three, two having died in early childhood, while Bettina Caroline, the third, died in 1827, after being misled and finally deserted by M. d’Estourny.  Marie-Modeste was the only child remaining, and she was confided during her father’s journeys to the care of the Dumays, who were under obligations to the Mignons; she married Ernest de la Bastie-La Briere (also called La Briere-la Bastie).  The brilliant career of Charles Mignon was the means of his reassuming the title, Comte de la Bastie. [Modeste Mignon.]

MIGNON (Madame Charles), wife of the preceding, born Bettina Wallenrod-Tustall-Bartenstild, indulged daughter of a banker in Frankfort-on-the-Main.  She became blind soon after her elder daughter, Bettina-Caroline’s troubles and early death, and had a presentiment of the romance connected with her younger daughter, Marie-Modeste, who became Madame Ernest de la Bastie-La Briere.  Towards the close of the Restoration, Madame Charles Mignon, as the result of an operation by Desplein, recovered her sight and was a witness of Marie-Modeste’s happiness. [Modeste Mignon.]