Complaints aside, the French Senate deemed loud roosters, pungent horse manure, and the like official parts of the country's rural "sensory heritage." The move is a major victory for the rural ...

France has passed a law to protect the sounds and smells of the countryside as part of French heritage. This comes after many people moved from cities to rural parts of the nation, and many of them ...

The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area. City slickers who move to the French countryside, only to find the ...