Moscow. June 19. INTERFAX.RU — In France, in the village of Saint-Pierre d’oléron (Department of Charente-Maritime) died the famous cock Maurice, a symbol of the rural way of life, which last year defended in court their right to crow in the morning. About his owner Corinne FESCO told the newspaper Le Sud-Ouest.
Maurice was six years old. Cause of death was protracted rhinotracheitis outbreak which occurred in the Department. As the newspaper notes, did not help him injections and vitamins, and one morning Corinne found him dead under the roost, surrounded by disconsolate chickens. It happened in may, but FESCO couldn’t find the strength to tell the media until mid-June, said France Bleu.
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FESCO brought Maurice in 2017. Her neighbors, retirees-spouses Biron, trying to protect himself from the noise that a rooster was created just after sunrise, three meters from their Windows, and went to court.
September 5, 2019 Rochefort court of the complaint of pensioners declined and allowed the cock to crow as much as anyone. The plaintiffs had to pay the defendant 1000 euros for litigation expenses.
the Case of Maurice inspired the National Assembly to adopt the law on the protection of the rural noises and smells as part of the cultural organoleptic heritage of the French countryside. The law was adopted on 30 January 2020 unanimously. Under his protection were these sounds, like the crowing of cocks, croaking frogs, the sound of Church bells, each Department will create a list depending on local circumstances.
Corinne FESCO made a new rooster and named him Maurice II, he also sings well. “But he will never be our Maurice” — going through FESCO.
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