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Sons of the Soil

CHAPTER IX
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His only child was a daughter, married to a rich farmer named Guerbet.

He died in 1817.
The last of the Mouchons, who was a priest, and the curate of Ville-aux-Fayes before the Revolution, was again a priest after the re-establishment of Catholic worship, and again the curate of the same little town.

He was not willing to take the oath, and was hidden for a long time in the hermitage of Les Aigues, under the protection of the Gaubertins, father and son.

Now about sixty-seven years of age, he was treated with universal respect and affection, owing to the harmony of his nature with that of the inhabitants.

Parsimonious to the verge of avarice, he was thought to be rich, and the credit of being so increased the respect that was shown to him.


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