One was given by the ladies of such a town; another was the gift of the prefect's wife of such a department.

A handsome full-length portrait had been presented to the poet by the municipal authorities of Agen; and a letter from M.
Lamartine, framed, above the chimney-piece, avowed the writer's belief that the Troubadour of the Garonne was the Homer of the modern world.
M.Jasmin wears the ribbon of the Legion of Honour, and has several valuable presents which were made to him by the late ex-king and different members of the Orleans family.
"I have been somewhat minute in giving an account of my interview with M.Jasmin, because he is really the popular poet--the peasant poet of the South of France--the Burns of Limousin, Provence, and Languedoc.

His songs are in the mouths of all who sing in the fields and by the cottage firesides.

Their subjects are always rural, naive, and full of rustic pathos and rustic drollery.

To use his words to me, he sings what the hearts of the people say, and he can no more help it than can the birds in the trees.