Key facts
- Type
- Weekly newspaper
- Format
- Newspaper
- Owner
- Michel Gaillard
- Editor
- S.A. Les Éditions Maréchal
- Founded
- 1915 ; 111 years ago ( 1915 )
- Political alignment
- Independent
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Circulation
- 340,000 weekly (2018)
- Issn
- 0008-5405
- Website
- lecanardenchaine.fr
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- weekly newspaper
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Country of origin
- France
- Official website
- gallicaintramuros.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34348420x/date
- Image
- LeCanardE2.png
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- language of work or name
- French
- title
- Le Canard enchaîné
- Commons category
- Le Canard enchaîné
- inception
- 1915-09-10
- publication interval
- 1
- social media followers
- 832794
- price
- 1.50
- start time
- 1915-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Canard enchaîné ( French pronunciation: [lə kanaʁ ɑ̃ʃɛne]; English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper" as canard in French slang means "newspaper") is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters are 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 cartoons. Le Canard enchaîné does not accept any advertisements and is privately owned, mostly by its own employees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Canard enchaîné” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.