MIGNON (Bettina-Caroline), elder daughter of the preceding couple; born in 1805, the very image of her father; a typical Southern girl; was favored by her mother over her younger sister, Marie-Modeste, a kind of “Gretchen,” who was similar in appearance to Madame Mignon.  Bettina-Caroline was seduced, taken away and finally deserted by a “gentleman of fortune,” named D’Estourny, and shortly sank at Havre under the load of her sins and suffering, surrounded by nearly all of her family.  Since 1827 there has been inscribed on her tomb in the little Ingouville cemetery the following inscription:  “Bettina Caroline Mignon, died when twenty-two years of age.  Pray for her!” [Modeste Mignon.]

MIGNON (Marie-Modeste). (See La Bastie-La Briere, Madame Ernest de.)

MIGNONNET, born in 1782, graduate of the military schools, was an artillery captain in the Imperial Guard, but resigned under the Restoration and lived at Issoudun.  Short and thin, but of dignified bearing; much occupied with science; friend of the cavalry officer Carpentier, with whom he joined the citizens against Maxence Gilet.  Gilet’s military partisans, Commandant Potel and Captain Renard, lived in the Faubourg of Rome, Belleville of the corporation of Berry. [A Bachelor’s Establishment.]

MILAUD, handsome representative of the self-enriched plebeian branch of Milauds; relative of Jean-Athanase-Polydore Milaud de la Baudraye, in whose marriage he put no confidence, and from whom he expected to receive an inheritance.  Under the favor of Marchangy, he undertook the career of a public prosecutor.  Under Louis XVIII. he was a deputy at Angouleme, a position to which he was succeeded by maitre Petit-Claud.  Milaud eventually performed the same duties at Nevers, which was probably his native country. [Lost Illusions.  The Muse of the Department.]

MILAUD DE LA BAUDRAYE. (See La Baudraye.)

MILLET, Parisian grocer, on rue Chanoinesse, in 1836 attended to the renting of a small unfurnished room in Madame de la Chanterie’s house; gave Godefroid information, after having submitted him to a rigid examination. [The Seamy Side of History.]

MINARD (Louis), refractory “chauffeur,” connected with the Royalist insurrection in western France, 1809, was tried at the bar of justice, where Bourlac and Mergi presided; he was executed the same year that he was condemned to death. [The Seamy Side of History.]

MINARD (Auguste-Jean-Francois), as clerk to the minister of finances he received a salary of fifteen hundred francs.  In the florist establishment of a fellow-workman’s sister, Mademoiselle Godard, of rue Richelieu, he met a clerk, Zelie Lorain, the daughter of a porter.  He fell in love with her, married her, and had by her two children, Julien and Prudence.  He lived near the Courcelles gate, and as an economical worker of retiring disposition he was made the butt of J.-J.  Bixiou’s jests in the Treasury Department.  Necessity gave him fortitude and originality.