The roads are bordered with vines, arranged in arches, lovely to the eyes of travellers.

The poets, who delight in making the union of the vine with the trees which support it an emblem of marriage, can verify their comparisons only in Gascony or Italy.

It is usually pear trees that are used to support them....
"Thanks to M.Charles Nodier, who had discovered a man of modest talent buried in this province, I knew a little of the verses of the Gascon poet Jasmin.

Early one morning, at about seven, the diligence stopped in the middle of a Place, where I read this inscription over a shop-door, 'Jasmin, Coiffeur des jeunes gens.' We were at Agen.

I descended, swallowed my cup of coffee as fast as I could, and entered the shop of the most lettered of peruke-makers.