Mouton meaning

Alfred Mouton, Whig..

retaining an imprint of its own, Mouton de Gruyter publishes an internationally renowned range of research series and journals.

So it came about that at the council at Malo-Yaroslavets, when the generals pretending to confer together expressed various opinions, all mouths were closed by the opinion uttered by the simple-minded soldier Mouton who, speaking last, said what they all felt: that the one thing needful was to get away as quickly as possible; and no one, not even Napoleon, could say anything against that truth which they all recognized.

That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also.

The Rothschild family is famous when it comes to French wine (think Lafitte and Mouton for Bordeaux).