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M. Deydou said at Bordeaux, when delivering an address upon the genius of Jasmin his Eminence Cardinal Donnet presiding that poetry, when devoted to the cause of charity, according to the poet himself, was "the glory of the earth and the perfume of heaven." Jasmin loved his dear town of Agen, and was proud of it.
Thus did he think to escape the danger with which he was threatened by silencing the tongues which warned him. The learned Cardinal Donnet, so celebrated as a theologian, now showed the abilities of a diplomatist.
God bless my soul, man! but you are the daftest donnet I ever saw on two legs!" cried Keziah, snatching up the coarse gray knitting which was the sole unanchored circumstance in the room and casting off her heel viciously. "What call had you to adopt a daughter you with never a wife to mother her nor a house of your own to take her to?
Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, said of him, that "he was gifted with a rich nature, a loyal and unreserved character, and a genius as fertile as the soil of his native country. The lyre of Jasmin," he said, "had three chords, which summed up the harmonies of heaven and earth the true, the useful, and the beautiful."
Two chief motives can be divined for Napoleon's determined opposition to Italian unity which never ceased till Sedan. The first was his wish, shared by all French politicians, that Italy should be weak. The second was his regard for the Temporal Power which proceeded from his still being convinced that he could not reign without the Clerical vote. The French prelates were perpetually giving him reminders that this vote depended on his keeping the Pope on his throne. For instance, Cardinal Donnet told him at Bordeaux in October 1859, that he could not choose a better way of showing his appreciation of the Blessed Virgin than 'en ménageant un triomphe
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