French mayor launches bid to protect countryside 'sounds

[Article] A mayor in the village of Gajac in southwest France has launched a campaign to protect the rights of church bells to ring, cows to moo, and donkeys to bray throughout rural France. Bruno Dionis du Sejour, who is also a retired farmer, has asked the French government to classify the sounds of rural France as part of the country's heritage.

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Are these quintessentially French symbols under threat?
That's what the mayor of Gajac, a small village in the south-west of France, believes.He says the sounds of the countryside should be granted heritage protection... Because more and more newcomers, bothered by the noise, are suing villagers.
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This article was published Monday, 15 July, 2019 by AFP (408 words)
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