Jasmin, Jacques, a Gascon barber and poet, who by his romances, burlesques, and odes, published between 1835 and 1849, raised the patois of the S. of France to the status of a literary language, and created a wholesome influence on French life and letters (1778‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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