Cul de canard and popular with anglers and trout alike. The use of CDC's in fly fishing originated from the Jura Mountains during the 1920s where fly fishermen used this feather in dry flies to aid buoyancy in a particular pattern called Moustique. It took until the 1980s for popular use of this feather within a whole range of patterns. Cul de canard Cul de canard (CDC) (French for "duck bottom") are the feathers from the back of a duck directly around the preen gland (uropygial gland); they are very buoyant due to preen oil produced by the preen gland. They are used
Marius Canard return to the Maghreb, first as a teacher in the "Lycée de Tunis" and then as a professor in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Algiers. It was there that Canard, along with Georges Marçais, founded the "Institut d'Études Orientales" and began a journal that soon acquired international prominence among Orientalists: the "Annales". After 44 years of teaching in Algiers, Canard retired in 1961 to Paris, where he died in 1982. Among Canard's major scholarly achievements are his history of the Hamdanid dynasty, as well as his studies on the Fatimid Caliphate, a field which at the time