Rooster’s early morning cock-a-doodle-doos were vindicated in court case that shone a light on France’s urban-rural divideA noisy French rooster, who became a symbol of tensions between traditional rural France and encroaching urbanity in a court battle over his early-morning crowing, has died.Maurice the cockerel rose to national fame after his dawn cock-a-doodle-doos so annoyed a retired couple with a holiday home on the picturesque island of Oleron in western France that they took the owner to court in a bid to silence him. Continue reading...