When the ceremony is over the innkeeper notes that before today he wore the shoes himself.  When not wearing them, he aired them in the inn.  This practice had the added benefit of killing all the flies that flew over the idle footwear.  He is proud thus to have run one of the most hygienic tables in Vendée.  No flies in this inn's buttermilk -- no sir.  Having missed this information while emptying their "bot", our connaisseurs noted that the wine was very, very good.