Jasmin addressed him in a Gascon letter full of bright poetry, not unlike Burns's Vision, when he dreamt of becoming a song-writer.

The only consolation that Jasmin received from M.Minier was a poetical letter, in which the poet was implored to retain his position and not to frequent the society of distinguished persons.
Perhaps the finest work which Jasmin composed at this period of his life was that which he entitled Mous Soubenis, or 'My Recollections.' In none of his poems did he display more of the characteristic qualities of his mind, his candour, his pathos, and his humour, than in these verses.
He used the rustic dialect, from which he never afterwards departed.

He showed that the Gascon was not yet a dead language; and he lifted it to the level of the most serious themes.

His verses have all the greater charm because of their artless gaiety, their delicate taste, and the sweetness of their cadence.
Jasmin began to compose his 'Recollections' in 1830, but the two first cantos were not completed until two years later.

The third canto was added in 1835, when the poem was published in the first volume of his 'Curl-Papers' (Papillotes).