His poems were occasionally inserted in the local journals; but the editors did not approve of his use of the expiring Gascon dialect.

They were of opinion that his works might be better appreciated if they appeared in modern French.

Gascon was to a large extent a foreign language, and greatly interfered with Jasmin's national reputation as a poet.
Nevertheless he held on his way, and continued to write his verses in Gascon.

They contained many personal lyrics, tributes, dedications, hymns for festivals, and impromptus, scarcely worthy of being collected and printed.

Jasmin said of the last description of verse: "One can only pay a poetical debt by means of impromptus, and though they may be good money of the heart, they are almost always bad money of the head." Jasmin's next poem was The Charivari (Lou Charibari), also written in Gascon.