CHAPTER V.JASMIN AND GASCON .-- FIRST VOLUME OF "PAPILLOTES.".
Jasmin's first efforts at verse-making were necessarily imperfect.

He tried to imitate the works of others, rather than create poetical images of his own.

His verses consisted mostly of imitations of the French poems which he had read.

He was overshadowed by the works of Boileau, Gresset, Rousseau, and especially by Beranger, who, like himself, was the son of a tailor.
The recollections of their poetry pervaded all his earlier verses.

His efforts in classical French were by no means successful.