Today after two big wars and lots of Dragon Lady spittle. People are no longer chatting on the steps but fighting over them.
Our tortuous neighbor The Dragon Lady is at it again. So far in 2007 she has strong-armed us in to paying for part of a roof she says we co-own, robbed our insurance company of about 2000 euros for a mysterious leak she said was caused by our roofer in February and now it seems she wants our two front steps.
For the past two weeks she had surveyors out measuring our house front and back. Conclusion? Our bottom two steps belong to her and she wants us to know she intends to expand her front terrace and eliminate them. She has requested that we change the entryway to our house.
It didn't escape out ears that she tutoyers the surveyor.**
First of all the entry to our house includes a droit de passage so she can't build a terrace because we have the right to cross her front stoop to get to ours. It's our only entryway and it's been there for at least 107 years (see photo)***. Second if the Mairie approves her building a terrace on this street I'll lose all faith in France's respect for patrimoine. Third if we give up our droit de passage she can claim the front entry area as her property and gain a considerable chunk of real estate for free.
I'm not sure why she won't leave us alone. Her house is actually divided in to four apartments rented to students part of the year and tourists during the summer. She doesn't even live here. She makes no effort to preserve the patrimoine of the village. This is just one of her many nest eggs and because her grandmother was born here somehow she thinks that gives her a divine right to spit fire in all directions.
*more like blackmailed us but the details can't really be discussed here
**she also tutoyer's the mayor.
***our house is the one further in the distance on the left with the staircase--hard to see in these pictures
3 comments:
I am so sorry that you have to put up with such nonsense. Will you have someone handling your affairs when you are in Mexico so you don't come home to being a tenant in Dragon Lady's new stolen home?
I really hope you will be able to find the birthing care you want in Mexico. Perhaps you can find a female doctor?
OMG, we need to make a dragon lady voodoo doll; get me one of her hairs and I will put tu tu tu coming out of her mouth (evil laugh). Neat photos though, very cool to see it 107 years ago.
xxoo
Riana
I comisserate with you! I lived in a small village in the south and saw how important "family connections" are. It appears that Dragon Lady's only concern is the fatness of her wallet.
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