Named Ali and Gator, they stalk the 67 year-old Frenchman's house, along with hundreds of other creatures including some of nature's most-maligned species from rattlesnakes to tarantulas.
Over two decades the herpetologist -- the technical word for a reptile enthusiast -- has amassed a collection 400 strong in his unassuming house in a village on the banks of the River Loire.
A cobra lives in the coffee table, a 50kg tortoise roams the garden and at night Ali, the dominant alligator of the pair, sleeps with Gillet while Gator keeps watch at the door.
Fireworks and flames took over central Valencia on Tuesday (March 19) as locals and thousands of tourists celebrated the end of a four-day festival with the burning of over 380 ornate and colourful monuments made up of giant figures known as ninots, in the "Crema de Fallas" (burning of the fallas).
