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MIGNONS, LES

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIGNONS, See also:LES . In a See also:general sense the See also:French word See also:mignon means " favourite," but the See also:people of See also:Paris used it in a See also:special sense to designate the favourites of See also:Henry III. of See also:France, frivolous and fashionable See also:young men, to whom public malignity attributed dissolute morals. According to the contemporary chronicler See also:Pierre de 1'Estoile, they made themselves " exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish and haughty demeanour, as by their effeminate and immodest See also:dress, but above all by the immense gifts the See also:king made to them." The Guises appear to have stirred up the See also:ill will of the Parisians against them. From 1576 the mignons were attacked by popular See also:opinion, and historians accredited without See also:proof the scandalous stories of the See also:time. The best known of the mignons were the See also:dukes of Joyeuse and of See also:Epernon.

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