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PARIS (Reuters) - Select guests gathered at a top Paris restaurant on Tuesday to sample the one millionth duck to be snatched from grassy marshland, carefully strangled and ritually cooked with its own blood. 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. Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ate duck No. 33,642 in 1910, Charlie Chaplin guzzled No. 253,652 some 45 years later, and celebrities like Elton John and Nicole Kidman and footballer Ronaldo have sampled more recent birds. The Queen of England, as a princess, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito have both sampled a Tour d'Argent Caneton, famous for being served in a heady, cognac-laced sauce dosed with blood...
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