Le Canard enchaîné (French: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper) is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France. Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. It has a circulation of 446,000. It is one of the most respected and oldest French newspapers, despite its often humoristic tone

{Un canard signifiait en argot une histoire délibérément fausse, d'après le proverbe "vendre un canard à moitié", tenter de tromper l'acheteur.}
{A canard also is slang for a deliberately falsified story, after the proverb " vendre un canard à moitè", try to decieve the client.}
( as is in Anu's etymology)

Le Canard Enchaîné