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The Christmas Stag... re "can the hunt come on my land?"


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A Happy Ending for the Christmas Stag

On Christmas Eve Monique de Rothschild’s hunt were after a stag who in the early afternoon took refuge in a family’s garden on the edge of the Compiegne forest. Patrick Coursimault came out to see what all the noise was about to find the whole hunt just a few metres from his living-room throwing lumps of wood to try, without success, to get the stag out of the garden.

He said he was also a hunter (on foot), but was touched by the way this stag’s only way to escape was into his garden. The hunt leader asked Mr. Coursimault to send the stag out of his garden so the hunt could continue. He refused. He was informed that he therefore became responsible for the stag and any damage it may cause. The gendarmes then arrived on the scene, as well as the adjoint-maire, David Guérin.

The hunt insisted on retrieving their stag, but David Guérin decided to save the poor animal, too worn out to even move from the garden, by quickly signing a paper with the gendarmes making the commune responsible for it.

The stag stayed resting in the Coursimault’s garden all afternoon and evening. When the children arrived for Christmas Eve, they called him Father Christmas’ Stag and watched him from the kitchen window. In the night, they looked out of the window again and he had gone…

 

 

The newspaper article with photos of the stag can be seen on the Antichasse site, « A quelques heures de Noël… » :

http://www.antichasse.com/

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