Le Canard enchaîné
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Le Canard enchaîné is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters is in Paris.
A reader consulting a copy of the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné.
Censorship in France
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France has a long history of governmental censorship, particularly in the 16th to 19th centuries, but today freedom of press is guaranteed by the French Constitution and instances of governmental censorship are limited.
Nemours' cahiers de doléances asking for the end of censorship, 1789. French National Archives
A censor's approval in a play printed in Paris in 1746, De Boissy's Le Medecin par Occasion