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Schuman, Robert (sh) and mouflon (medicine)


Schuman, Robert (sh)




born June 29, 1886, Luxembourg
died Sept. 4, 1963, Metz, France

French statesman.

He was a member of the French National Assembly from 1919. After working in the French Resistance in World War II, he helped found the Popular Republican Movement. He served as finance minister (1946), premier (1947-48), foreign minister (1948-52), and minister of justice (1955-56). In 1950 he proposed the Schuman Plan to promote European economic and military unity, which led to the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community (EEC). He served as president of the EEC's consultative assembly (1958-60).


mouflon (medicine)


mouflon
<zoology> A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep.

Synonym: musimon or musmon.

Alternative forms: moufflon.

Origin: F. Mouflon.

Source: Websters Dictionary