After last week’s posting which lauded the efforts of the Cafe Puits de Jour to bring live music to the village on weekends, a story circulated around town that illustrates the downside of such activity.  With a vibrant nightlife often comes a mixed clientele of music lovers, party goers and mischief makers.  The latter categories were numerous one recent Saturday evening at the cafe.  When Mathieu tried to close down early, some of the cafe goers were not ready to leave and made a great deal of noise and commotion in front of the cafe on the square.

 

In France there is something called the Droit de Voisinage  or the Right of Neighbors  which allows property owners to protect themselves from excessive noise, water, smoke, etc.  coming from their neighbors.  So after Mathieu was not able to control his noisy patrons, an angry neighbor dressed in a pink night gown came out of her house, turned on her garden hose and doused them until they fled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is now an unofficial hero of the village and there has apparently been a run on garden hose at the local hardware store.