As recently reported by Aurelien Breeden in the New York Times,a law was passed in France that would protect rooster crowing and certain other sounds of the French countryside, as defined by each area ...

(CNN) A rooster called Maurice was Thursday put on trial in western France, in an unusual case that has come to symbolize the divide between urban and rural communities. The copper-feathered cockerel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — Maurice the rooster can keep ...