Dante virtually created the Italian language, while Jasmin merely resuscitated for a time the Gascon dialect.
Jasmin was not deterred by the expostulations of Dumon, but again wrote his new epic of Franconnette in Gascon.

It took him a long time to clothe his poetical thoughts in words.

Nearly five years had elapsed since he recited The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille to the citizens of Bordeaux; since then he had written a few poetical themes, but he was mainly thinking and dreaming, and at times writing down his new epic Franconnette.

It was completed in 1840, when he dedicated the poem to the city of Toulouse.
The story embodied in the poem was founded on an ancient tradition.

The time at which it occurred was towards the end of the sixteenth century, when France was torn to pieces by the civil war between the Huguenots and the Catholics.