Talk:Alexander Mouton
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[edit] Spelling of His Name & His Ancestry
Two observations/questions:
1) Did not Mouton spell his first name in the French manner (Alexandre)?
2) The article states that Mouton was born "into a wealthy plantation owning French Creole family." However, I don't think they were French Creole; I think they were Acadian (albeit aspiring to French Creole pretensions). I.e., Mouton's family was made up primarily of "genteel Acadians," as historians have called them . . . Acadians who broke away from the mass of average, ordinary, impoverished Acadians and became wealthy planters, and who copied the French Creole elite (and later the Anglo-American elite) who lived around them. (See Brasseaux, Acadian to Cajun, passim.)
