2026年、フランスで、夜は教会の鐘を鳴らさないでほしいという請願が出された。41筆で、棚上げになった。2026 — In France, a petition asked that church bells fall silent at night. With forty-one signatures, it was shelved.

A petition was filed on the French National Assembly's platform asking that the bells of religious buildings not be rung between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. The proposer was named Gary Roustan, and it was submitted on 4 December 2025.

The petition called for a single nationwide rule. Its text cited, as grounds, that sleep is vital to life, that the World Health Organization recognises noise as a form of pollution, that everyone now has an alarm, a clock or a phone, and that night-time construction noise is already regulated.

It gathered forty-one signatures.

A National Assembly petition is automatically 'shelved' if it does not reach 5,000 signatures within six months of submission, under a rule the law committee's bureau set at a meeting in July 2024.

This petition was shelved under that rule. Its deadline was 10 June 2026.

At 100,000 signatures it would have been posted on the Assembly's site; at 500,000 across more than thirty departments it might have been debated in the chamber. It was far from both.