“This is French humor and it doesn’t translate into other languages,” said editor Jean Dandy, whose day job is running the French equivalent of the Jockey Club.
“We’re trying to be silly, but not mean. It’s about teasing without being cruel,” he told the BBC.
While maintaining the qualities of a serious paper with various sections on politics, sports, and puzzles, this politically incorrect quadrennial paper is primarily intended for laughs.
The international page features a short article declaring Liz Truss the most “unforgettable” of modern British prime ministers.
winston churchill award
Sports editors are calling for the creation of a Winston Churchill Award for the first person to be eliminated from the Olympic Games. This is because Churchill’s motto was “no sport”.
La Bousie du Sapeur is named after one of France’s earliest comic characters, Le Sapeure Camembert, a simple soldier who appears in stories about life in the army in the 1890s.
This paper can only be purchased from newsagents and newsstands. Priced at €4.90 (£4.20), it is trading like wildfire. But Indy has no plans to increase the frequency.
“After the first issue sold out in two days, the newsagents wanted more copies, so we said okay, but that was four years later!”, he said.