During the period when we were allowed to go to the courtyard and speak to our friends through a grated window, each one would return and say, 'I have seen my wife (or my daughter, or my servant), who could not explain herself fully, but assured me by a pressure of the hand that all was going well.' If a person of any distinction was seen in the garden making the least possible signal of any kind it was sufficient to arouse hope. I certainly did not share the hopefulness enjoyed by most of the prisoners; indeed, it frightened me. I undertook at times to convince them that they were too sanguine; but I afterward reproached myself for taking the liberty to do so, for delusion was a necessity to them. Some persons deluded themselves so completely that they even found that there were some reasons why their friends and acquaintances should be condemned, but were confident that they should be exempt. Monsieur and Madame de Mouchy were not of this sort; on the contrary, they considered their situation a very critical one. One thing was done which alarmed us all; popular commissions were sent out by the Committee of General Security, containing questions to be answered by the prisoners. These questions were extremely captious. I think I can remember them exactly, and also Monsieur de Mouchy's answers. _By Order of the Committee of General Security, the Prisoners will answer truly and as briefly as possible the following questions:--_ QUESTIONS. ANSWERS. _Your name?_ Noailles Mouchy. _Your age?_ In my seventy-ninth year. _Where did you live before and In Paris, on the Rue de l'Université after the Revolution began, and since the 9th of September at and since then?_ Mouchy with my wife and my daughter. _Are you a married man? If so, I have been married fifty-two years to how long since you were Anne Claude Louise d'Arpajon. married?_ _The number of your children, Three children: one daughter their age, and their forty-nine years old, married to whereabouts?_ the former Duc de Duras, and now a prisoner at Chantilly; Phillippe de Poix, forty years, who left France to save his life, as a price was set on his head; Louis Noailles, aged thirty-seven, left France with all the pass-ports required at the time, and is now in North America. _Your profession before and I have been a soldier from my youth; since the Revolution?_ and I have risen to the rank of Marshal of France.