In the morning he spoke of country, religion, and work to the humbler classes, and in the evening he spoke of love and charity to a crowded audience of distinguished ladies.

He was entertained at Marseilles like a prince, rather than like a poet.
He sometimes gave as many as three hundred recitations of this sort in a year; visiting nearly every town from Bordeaux to Marseilles for all kinds of charitable institutions.

Of course his travels were enlivened by many adventures, and some people were unwilling to allow him to forget that he was a barber.

When at Auch, a town several miles to the south of Agen, he resided with the mayor.

The time for the meeting had nearly arrived; but the mayor was still busy with his toilet.