"A good name," said Nodier.

"At the same time, while you give fair play to your genius, don't give up the manufacture of periwigs, for this is an honest trade, while verse-making might prove only a frivolous distraction." Nodier then took his leave, but from that time forward Jasmin and he continued the best of friends.

A few years later, when the first volume of the Papillotos appeared, Nodier published his account of the above interview in Le Temps.

He afterwards announced in the Quotidienne the outburst of a new poet on the banks of the Garonne--a poet full of piquant charm, of inspired harmony--a Lamartine, a Victor Hugo, a Gascon Beranger! After Nodier's departure, Madame Jasmin took a more favourable view of the versification of her husband.

She no longer chided him.