The first of his poems that appeared was called "The Charivari." It is burlesque, and has considerable merit: it is preceded by a very fine ode, full of serious beauty and grace of expression; this was as early as 1825.

Several others of great beauty followed, and some of his songs became popular beyond the region where they were first sung.

But his finest composition was a ballad, called "The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille," which at once crowned him with fame and loaded him with honours.
The last volume he has published is that which I now introduce to the reader: it contains, besides several already known, many new poems, and a ballad, called "Francouneto," which is acknowledged as a successful rival to "The Blind Girl." The rustic character of his descriptions, and the rustic dialect in which they are conveyed, give a tone of novelty and reality to his works quite peculiar to themselves.

The force and powerful effect of the Gascon language is lost in reading the French version, appended to the original; but a very little attention will make that original understood, and the reward well repays the study.
The "Abuglo" (the Blind Girl) thus opens-- "Del pe d'aquelo haouto mountagno Oun se pinquo Castel-Cuille; Altenque lou poume, lou prune, l'amelle, Blanquejabon dens la campagno, Baci lou chan qu'on entendet, Un dimecres mati, beillo de Sent-Jouzet." "At the foot of the high mountain, where Castle-Cuille stands in mid-air, at the season when the apple-tree, the plum, and the almond, are whitening all the country round, this is the song that was sung one Wednesday morning, the eve of St.Joseph." Then comes the chorus, which is no invention of the poet, but a refrain of the country, always sung at rustic weddings, in accordance with a custom of strewing the bridal path with flowers: "The paths with buds and blossoms strew! A lovely bride approaches nigh: For all should bloom and spring anew, A lovely bride is passing by." A description then follows of a rural wedding, introducing habits and superstitions, which remind one of Burns and Hallow-e'en.

This picture of youth, gaiety, and beauty, is full of truth and nature; and the contrast is affecting, of the desolate situation of the young blind girl, who should have been the bride, but whom Baptiste, her lover, had deserted for one richer, since a severe malady had deprived her of her sight.