A French rooster named Maurice is now free to crow to his heart's content after a civil court ruled in his favor. He was put on trial in July in an unusual court battle after neighbors objected to his early morning crowing.
Maurice, who lives with owner Corinne Fesseau in the village of Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, on the Isle of Oléron off the Atlantic coast, wasHowever, a court in Rochefort, western France, rejected the neighbors' complaints of noise pollution Thursday and ordered them to pay €1,000 in damages.
"I am relieved that we won this fight," owner Fesseau told CNN."I hope that this will advance things in communes all over France -- that this case will set a jurisprudence." The case against Maurice made headlines across the globe and came to symbolize the polarization between rural and urban France -- particularly because the neighbors who objected to his crowing are city dwellers and only visit Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron a few times a year, according to Fesseau.
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