The legendary Tour d'Argent has been serving up eight-week old ducklings, reared in the west coast Challans marshes, since 1890, meticulously preparing them according to an age-old tradition, and serving each one with a souvenir numbered tag.
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| "There is nothing more serious than pleasure," he adds. |
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| "One million ducks. It's marvellous, really moving," |
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| duck to be snatched from grassy marshland, carefully strangled and ritually cooked with its own blood. |