Le Canard enchaîné Free Man") which was forced to close by government censorship and reacted upon its reopening by changing its name to "L'homme enchaîné" ("The Chained-up Man"); "Le Canard enchaîné" means "The chained-up duck", but "canard" (duck) is also French slang for "newspaper"; it was also a reference to French journals published by soldiers during World War I. The weekly was founded in 1915 by and his wife , along with H. P. Gassier. It changed its title briefly after World War I to "Le Canard Déchaîné" ("The duck unbound", or "out of control"), to celebrate the end of military censorship of
French seaplane carrier Foudre the honour of being the first seaplane carrier with which was temporarily converted as an experimental seaplane carrier for two months in April–May 1913, and is more often considered as the first seaplane carrier. French seaplane carrier Foudre The Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, the first in history. Her development followed the invention of the seaplane in 1910 with the French "Le Canard". The "Foudre" was first commissioned in 1896 as a torpedo boat tender ("Croiseur porte-torpilleurs"), with the role of helping bring torpedo boats to the high seas, and launch them for attack. She was then modified as