It still remains the sonorous and harmonious language of the Troubadours.

The patois has the suppleness of the Italian, the sombre majesty of the Spanish, the energy and preciseness of the Latin, with the "Molle atque facetum, le dolce de, l'Ionic;" which still lives among the Phoceens of Marseilles.

The imagination and genius of Gascony have preserved the copious richness of the language.
M.de Lavergne, in his notice of Jasmin's works, frankly admits the local jealousy which existed between the Troubadours of Gascony and Provence.

There seemed, he said, to be nothing disingenuous in the silence of the Provencals as to Jasmin's poems.

They did not allow that he borrowed from them, any more than that they borrowed from him.