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    Nov 30, 2019 4 minutes

    MAURICE CAN CROW

    Maurice the rooster has won the right to keep on crowing in his backyard each morning on the island of Oleron in France. Maurice’s case and several other lawsuits against the sounds of church bells, cow bells, cicadas and the pungent smells from farms have prompted a national debate over how to protect rural culture from the encroachment of expectations that are more associated with urban areas.

    In September the court decided the four-year-old cockerel’s owner, Corinne Fesseau, will be able to keep the rooster on the small island of Oleron, off France’s Atlantic coast. The judge in the southwest city of Rochefort also ordered the neighbours to pay 1,000 euros ($1,600) in damages to Ms

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