Leap year: French readers enjoy world’s only four-year newspaper - BBC News
La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out only every four years - so since 1980 only 12 copies have been published.
14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, La Bougie du Sapeur gives a satirical take on topics ranging from politics to sport and international affairsBy Hugh SchofieldBBC News, ParísThe world's only quadrennial, or four-yearly newspaper, has hit the kiosks again in France with the release of a new issue of the satirical La Bougie du Sapeur.
The singularity of the 20-page tabloid is that it comes out only on 29 February - so once every leap-year.
The first edition was in 1980, and this is issue 12.
Conceived by a group of friends who "wanted to have a laugh", La Bougie du Sapeur (The Sapper's Candle) has a print run of 200,000.
It is priced at €4.90 (£4.20), and more than meets its costs.
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