Le Canard enchaîné euros. Le Canard enchaîné Le Canard enchaîné (; English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper", as "canard" is French slang meaning "newspaper"), is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters is in Paris. Founded in 1915 during World War I, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and humorous cartoons. "Le Canard enchaîné" does not accept any advertisements and is privately owned, mostly by its own employees. The name is a reference to Radical Georges Clemenceau's newspaper "L'homme libre"
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