The latter classed Jasmin with Theocritus, Horace, and La Fontaine, and paid him the singular tribute, "that he had made Goodness as attractive as other French writers had made Badness." Such criticisms as these made Jasmin popular, not only in his own district, but throughout France.
We cannot withhold the interesting statement of Paul de Musset as to his interview with Jasmin in 1836, after the publication of his second volume of poems.

Paul de Musset was the author of several novels, as well as of Lui et Elle, apropos of his brother's connection with George Sand.

Paul de Musset thus describes his visit to the poet at Agen.{6} "Let no one return northward by the direct road from Toulouse.

Nothing can be more dreary than the Lot, the Limousin, and the interminable Dordogne; but make for Bordeaux by the plains of Gascony, and do not forget the steamboat from Marmande.

You will then find yourself on the Garonne, in the midst of a beautiful country, where the air is vigorous and healthy.