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"
Le Canard enchaîné the press. It resumed the title "Le Canard enchaîné" in 1920. The title also conveys a double meaning, "canard" being a possible salacious rumour or whisper and "enchaîné" simply meaning linked, hence "the inside whisper". It continued to publish and grow in popularity and influence until it was forced to suspend publication during the German occupation of France in 1940. After the liberation of France, it resumed publication. It changed to its eight-page format in the 1960s. Many of the "Canard"'s early contributors were members of the Communist and Socialist parties, but it shed its alignment with those groups in