In the village I lived in, when
I resided in Provence, the local
Boulanger requested my Iron
skills to make a controversial
weather vane for his bakery.

After some thought, I fabricated
a Coq that rotated atop three of
the compass points and a loaf
which represented East or Yeast.

Lever is the French verb to rise,
Levin is yeast ( A bread riser ).
And the Coq, who is up before
anyone, was, as I had assumed,
the perfect metaphoric riddle.

But Pascal, Le Boulanger was not
impressed, as I had neglected to
consider, that the French don't
speak English and hence, the Yeast
polarity pun was lost on everyone.

  " It was my first French lesson "