To avoid too many explanations it is necessary to state, once for all, succinctly, the genealogical ramifications by means of which Gaubertin wound himself about the country, as a boa-constrictor winds around a tree,--with such art that a passing traveller thinks he beholds some natural effect of the tropical vegetation.
In 1793 there were three brothers of the name of Mouchon in the valley of the Avonne.

After 1793 they changed the name of the valley to that of the Valley des Aigues, out of hatred to the old nobility.
The eldest brother, steward of the property of the Ronquerolles family, was elected deputy of the department to the Convention.

Like his friend, Gaubertin's father, the prosecutor of those days, who saved the Soulanges family, he saved the property and the lives of the Ronquerolles.

He had two daughters; one married to Gendrin, the lawyer, the other to Gaubertin.

He died in 1804.
The second, through the influence of his elder brother, was made postmaster at Conches.