French mayor launches bid to protect countryside 'sounds" 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. A natural sound version of a voiced AFPTV report