20 Ans

{{Short description|French magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = 20 Ans | image_file = 20 Ans (magazine).jpg | image_caption = Cover of ''20 Ans'' | category = Women's | frequency = Monthly | firstdate = 1961 | finaldate = 2010 | company = {{ubl| Publications Louchel (1961–?)| Publications Groupe Media (?–?)| Excelsior Publications (1987–2003)| Emap (2003–2007)| FT Médias (2009–2010)}} | country = France | language = French }}

'''''20 Ans''''' ("20 Years old"), was a French monthly women's magazine. It was published from Paris between 1961 and 2007, then from 2009 until 2010, targeting middle-class adolescents.

== Background == ''20 Ans'' ("20 Years old"), is a French monthly women's magazine. It has been published from Paris, since 1961 and is mainly read by middle-class adolescents.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Mieke Ceulemans |author2=Guido Fauconnier |date=1979 |title=Mass Media: The Image, Role, and Social Conditions of Women |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0003/000370/037077eo.pdf |accessdate=30 May 2015 |work=UNESCO |location=Paris}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Philip Thody |author-link=Philip Thody |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W56vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290 |title=Le Franglais: Forbidden English, Forbidden American: Law, Politics and Language in Contemporary France: A Study in |publisher=A&C Black |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-4411-7760-5 |page=290}}</ref> ''20 Ans'' absorbed 'Jacinte' in 1986 and was briefly published as ''20 Ans Jacinte''.

The magazine was published by Excelsior Publications from 1987,<ref>{{cite book |author=Nicholas Hewitt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qczzKXFmPCYC&pg=PA97 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-521-79465-7 |page=97}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=24 December 1992 |title=Le groupe Express cède « Biba » à Excelsior |url=https://www.lesechos.fr/1992/12/le-groupe-express-cede-biba-a-excelsior-938764 |website=Les Echos |language=fr}}</ref> until its 2003 acquisition by Emap France.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lachlan Johnston |date=2 April 2003 |title=Emap spends £62m at French kiosks |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/04/03/cnemap03.xml |accessdate=21 February 2008 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Patrick Barrett |date=14 April 2004 |title=Emap makes French connection |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/apr/14/emap.pressandpublishing |accessdate=22 April 2015 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Emap was acquired by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |date=21 June 2006 |title=A new Mondadori |url=http://www.borsaitaliana.it/bitApp/view.bit?lang=it&target=StudiDownloadFree&filename=pdf%2F50571.pdf |accessdate=26 June 2016 |work=Borsa Italiana}}</ref>

The publications circulation reached 250,000 monthly copies in July 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=Un bel été pour Closer, 20 ans et Biba |url=http://www.tarifmedia.com/article/article.cfm?idArticle=32515 |accessdate=21 February 2008 |work=Tarif Media |language=French |quote=...plus de 250 000 exemplaires* pour le daté juillet de 20 ans... (...more than 250,000 copies for the July edition of 20 ans...)}}</ref> However, in 2007 the magazine ceased publication.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=FR |first=FashionNetwork com |date=2009-03-03 |title=20 ans : le retour d'un féminin historique |url=https://fr.fashionnetwork.com/news/20-ans-le-retour-d-un-feminin-historique,56548.html |access-date=2025-09-19 |website=FashionNetwork.com |language=fr}}</ref> Then returned in 2009 under the ownership of FT Médias.<ref name=":0" /> It ceased publication in 2010 following an exposé on the working conditions at the publication (notably the editor-in-chief being a 19 year old intern) by ''20 Minutes''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-11 |title=«20 ans»: 7 astuces pour faire un magazine sans argent |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/medias/319423-20090411-20-ans-7-astuces-faire-magazine-argent |access-date=2025-09-19 |website=20 Minutes |language=fr}}</ref>

=== Editors === {| class="wikitable" !Editor-in-Chief !Start year !End year !Ref. |- |Jean-Jacques Thiébaut | | | |- |Agathe Godard | | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ottavi |first=Marie |title=Agathe Godard, nuit, gravement |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2019/08/01/agathe-godard-nuit-gravement_1743248/ |access-date=2025-09-19 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> |- |Yveline Dupuy | | | |- |Emmanuelle Alt |1993 |1998 |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Editore |first=Mame |date=2022-03-30 |title=ALT EMMANUELLE |url=http://fashion.mam-e.it/emmanuelle-alt/ |access-date=2025-09-19 |website=MAM-e |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |Claire Crepon |2009 |2009 |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-14 |title=Relance du magazine 20 ans: «On a fait ce qu'on pouvait pour le premier numéro» |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/medias/319699-20090414-relance-magazine-20-ans-on-fait-pouvait-premier-numero |access-date=2025-09-19 |website=20 Minutes |language=fr}}</ref> |}

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