Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mignon

The young Italian girl who fell in love with Wilhelm Meister's apprentice, her protector. Her love not being returned, she became insane and died. (Goethe: Wilhelm Meister.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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