Was it possible for Jasmin to revive the dialect, and embody it in a written language?
He knew much of the patois, from hearing it spoken at home.

But now, desiring to know it more thoroughly, he set to work and studied it.

He was almost as assiduous as Sir Walter Scott in learning obscure Lowland words, while writing the Waverley Novels.

Jasmin went into the market-places, where the peasants from the country sold their produce; and there he picked up many new words and expressions.

He made excursions into the country round Agen, where many of the old farmers and labourers spoke nothing but Gascon.