Le Canard enchaîné 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" ("The
Le Canard enchaîné considered one of (if not the) most objective French publications—hence its continued existence. It has a limited web presence, dependent, as it is, on selling a printed product. Despite declining newspaper circulations in France, and elsewhere, "Canard" is rich and growing. It owns cash reserves and property holdings worth 110 million euros. It runs cheaply and profitably, restricting itself to eight pages of two-color newsprint each week. Circulation has risen by a third since 2007 and its scandal-fuelled growth has seen a rise to 700,000 copies being printed and sold each week. Its net profit in 2009 was 5 million