MOUCHE (LISE), elder daughter of Pere Mouche, and sister of the preceding.  She had a son to her cousin Buteau, who, however, did not marry her for three years afterwards, when the death of her father made her heiress to some land.  She was at first an amiable woman, but grew hardened under the influence of her husband, and ultimately her whole desire was to avoid the necessity of a division of her father’s estate between her sister and herself.  Moved by these feelings, her love for Francoise became transformed into a hatred so intense that she did not hesitate to assist her husband in attempting to bring about the girl’s ruin.  In the end, having assisted Buteau in a shameful assault on Francoise, she afterwards threw her upon a scythe which was lying on the ground near by, inflicting injuries which proved fatal.  Pere Fouan, having been a witness of the assault, was subsequently murdered by Lise and her husband, to ensure his silence and their own safety.  La Terre.

MOULIN, an assistant station-master at Havre along with Roubaud.  La Bete Humaine.

MOULIN (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  She was a little woman, timid and weak, who was seldom seen.  She had a large family of young children.  La Bete Humaine.

MOUNIER, a tenor singer at the Opera, who gave the cue to Madame Daigremont at a performance in her house.  L’Argent.

MOUQUE, father of Mouquet and of Mouquette.  He had charge of the horses in the Voreux pit, and also acted as caretaker at a ruined mine known as the Requillart, where the company had given him two rooms to live in.  Almost every evening he received a visit from his old comrade Bonnemort.  Germinal.

MOUQUET, son of the preceding, was an inseparable companion of Zacharie Maheu, along with whom he worked at the Voreux pit.  During the strike he went out of curiosity to see the attack by the strikers on the soldiers who were guarding the mines, and was killed by a stray ball which struck him in the mouth.

MOUQUETTE, daughter of Mouque.  She was a putter in the Voreux pit, and lived with her father at the ruined mine of Requillart, where he was caretaker.  She was present at the attack by the strikers on the soldiers guarding the Voreux, and when the fatal volley was fired she was killed, in an instinctive attempt to save Catherine Maheu, before whom she placed herself.  Germinal.

MOURET, a hatter of Plassans who married Ursule Macquart in 1810 and went to live at Marseilles.  He was devoted to his wife, and a year after her death in 1839, he hanged himself in a cupboard where her dresses were still suspended.  He left three children, Helene, Francois, and Silvere.  La Fortune des Rougon.

MOURET (MADAME), wife of the preceding.  See Ursule Macquart.  La Fortune des Rougon.

MOURET (DESIREE), born 1844, daughter of Francois Mouret, and sister of Octave and Serge.  La Fortune des Rougon.

She was of feeble intellect, and when a girl of sixteen was still mentally like a child of eight.  When her mother fell under the influence of Abbe Faujas, and began entirely to neglect her family, Francois Mouret removed Desiree to the home of her old nurse, in whose custody she remained.  La Conquete de Plassans.