Las papillotos de Jasmin, coiffur ... 1825-1835. Poems in the Gascon dialect of Agen. With an introduction by Baze | 
So I spent a few days in Agen (South-Western France), hometown of Occitan poet/hairdresser Jasmin. Some of his poems were set to music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNzrVSr03g) and he even had a few international hits in the 19th century, but he is almost forgotten now. I can just picture a genteel English assembly singing about Béarn in heavily-accented Occitan 😀! His salon (pictured) is now a sushi bar.
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