The 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 only comes out 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.
"After the first issue sold out in two days, the newsagents were clamouring for more copies - so we said fine, but only in four years' time!", says editor Jean d'Indy, whose main job is running the French equivalent of the Jockey Club.
They* could have been talking about the Gubernites:
We knew your taste for curious quips
For cranks and contradictions queer
And with the laughter on our lips
We wished you there to hear.
For some ridiculous reason, to which, however I've no desire to be disloyal
Some person in authority, I don't know who
Very likely the Astronomer Royal
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February
Twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty
*Leap Year Quiz: to whom does this "they" refer, and how did the leap year affect poor Fred?
