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Mignon is known in France for making sumptuous leather agendas and accessories.
Every Mignon cover is made in the tradition of the finest Parisian leather-crafters. Each piece is hand-made from full-hide calfskin leather, carefully cut, sewn and finely polished.
Artisans use a centuries-old technique to tan, dye and prepare each piece of leather. This results in a naturally marked finish, making each cover unique.
The choice of fine leather used for Mignon covers is rigorous. The hides are carefully selected from a tannery in Italy known for its exacting standards.
The company that became Mignon was founded in 1885. La maison Fournier made notebooks and repertoires in a workshop in the Marais district of Paris.
In the 1930s, Adolphe Fourier, a gilder and bookbinder, founded the company Sarl Agendas Mignon with his son, Marcel Fournier and Maurice Monsallier.
 When Marcel Fournier retired in 1969, the company eventually passed into the hands of the Group Exacompta-Clairefontaine. The Group continues to safeguard the Mignon tradition of using the finest artisans-maroquiniers in the last of the French leather workshops.
Mignon’s logo suggests an appointment, a rendezvous, to highlight the usefulness of an agenda. The figures in the logo were emblematic of the elegance and courtoisie of Parisian high society in the Gilded Age, the time when the company first started.
See all Exacompta agendas with Mignon covers.
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