I cannot believe it, the chasse round us is shooting on remembrance Sunday and also on Armistice Day. Also across our land. Do they have no shame or are they so drunk on their aperos that they do not care. This is meant to be a day of peace and a celebration of that peace when the sides laid down their arms. Not a shooting fest!! Grrrrrr
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They would probably say that their forefathers died precisely to preserve the freedom to do exactly what they like on a jour férié.
Edited to add if you don’t want them on your land you tell the mairie and your local chasse organiser and voilà.
You might need to put up some little signs and also not expect sympathy when the sangliers come and destroy your garden.
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Just mentioning that “Remembrance Sunday” does not exist in France, as far as I’m aware…
Regarding 11 November… people gathered at the Monument aux morts…
Officials and the flag bearers marched from the Mairie…
Everyone proudly displaying the very colourful Bluets (special edition 2024)
Speeches were read, patriotic music echoed forth…
1 minute of complete silence was strictly observed…
Flags were lowered, raised etc in their colourful display.
then off to the SdF for a chat, aperitif and finally… everyone off home…
Most people of the commune did not attend… they had other things to do on this “day off”… and that is their prerogative .
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I confess I was a bit surprised - and wary - when I saw signs near us.
Live and let die, I suppose 
Oh I found the actual ruling:
Les propriétaires du terrain doivent simplement en informer le président de la société de chasse en expliquant le recours à l’article 422-1 du Code de l’environnement. L’interdiction est immédiate, à condition de la signaler par des panneaux « chasse interdite » – fournis par la LPO ou l’Aspas .
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Regard the hunt as a necessary evil, but so many of our local ones don’t put up signs, even though they’re now legally obliged to do so.
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Bloody French, what do they think they are up to 
You are some tulip flobil.
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I don’t know what you mean by ‘a tulip’ but I suspect it is derogatory? Anyway, the president of the chasse here is Monsieur le Maire, so I do not believe having a word with him will get us anywhere. Especially when any spare funds going are given by him to the chasse rather than put to good use elsewhere in the commune! I still stand by what I said, the firing of guns on Armistice Day is not correct.
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From personal knowledge … any “giving of funds” which rightfully belong to a Commune… is not a decision taken lightly… the suggestion has to be “put to the Vote” during a Council Meeting… and if the majority-Vote is in agreement, fair enough… the money is donated accordingly.
And the Minutes of the Council Meeting will be available for the world to peruse and marvel at… 
and the financial transaction will be noted in the official Accounts of the Commune.
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Yes, that is so. Given half of the commune council are chasse members, that explains why the funds go there. Not doing anything ‘wrong’ by the rules but perhaps wrong morally?
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It’s a flower 
Don’t you think a foreigner “having a word” might not go down too well flobil?
You sound like Audrey in To the Manor Born, or (Madame) Hyacinth Bucket. 
Let them get on with what they want to in their commune.
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Council members are voted in by those on the electoral roll for the Commune.
If you sincerely feel they are doing something wrong… you can question/complain higher up the field of command… why not write to your Prefect??
I have met a few Prefects and they have all been very polite and keen to discuss…
but you do need to have your speech prepared and be confident of the correctness of your subject as they don’t have time to waste 
Just got back from our Mairie, where (amongst other things) we discussed the 11th November ceremony.
The adjointe explained that it being a Monday made a useful 3-day break for many people… and they chose to be off and away elsewhere…
She was glad there had been a good turnout of Brits… sporting Poppies along with their Bluets.
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The ex Poste lady, now walking with a stick, used to sell the bluets, but nobody does anymore. As to poppies, I have only seen them on people who have come back from GB though I believe you can get them here.
There are only 2 Brits left in the commune, me and my friend Eddie who has an Irish passport thanks to his Dad, We were both there, so that is 100% in this commune. 
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We used to be the only 2 Brits in the commune… but others have snuck in over the years.
It was actually rather nice to see those who attended … and catch up with what they’ve been up to since last Christmas.
I had been officially “registered” to sell Bluets… and was ceremoniously handed the collection box and the stickers, when the Adjointe was subsequently needed to be elsewhere…
Brits sported knitted poppies (crafted by one of the ladies) and I’ve one somewhere from years ago. Money is still sent to British Legion by many Brits I believe.
Of course, I rattled the tin and they all coughed-up for their Bluets
Did you see the sangliers running amok in the middle of Marseille on the national news recently? They are getting very brave these days and going on the ramage wherever they want to.
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I love them, even though they are destructive from a human point of view.
having a huge one trotting alongside our car, one very misty morning… a truly magical moment…
we were crawling due to poor visibility and the boar seemed oblivious… thank heavens
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There were plum orchards at the bottom of my hill until last year, you’d always get a horde of them racketing about under the trees of an evening, hoovering up goodies. Sweethearts 
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Boared silly, probably.
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