20 Ans

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{{Short description|French magazine}}

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• Excelsior Publications (1961–2003)
• Emap (2003-present)

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| founded = 1961

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20 Ans (English translation: 20 years old) is a French monthly magazine for young women.

20 Ans was founded in 1961. The magazine was published by Excelsior Publications{{cite book|author=Nicholas Hewitt|title=The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qczzKXFmPCYC&pg=PA97|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-79465-7|page=97}} until 2003 when it was acquired by Emap France.{{cite news|author=Lachlan Johnston|title= Emap spends £62m at French kiosks|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/04/03/cnemap03.xml|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 April 2003|accessdate=21 February 2008}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite news|author=Patrick Barrett|title=Emap makes French connection|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/apr/14/emap.pressandpublishing|accessdate=22 April 2015|work=The Guardian|date=14 April 2004}} Emap France was acquired by the Italian media group Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in June 2006.{{cite news|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|date=21 June 2006}}

20 Ans is published on a monthly basis and targets adolescents.{{cite book|author=Philip Thody|author-link=Philip Thody|title=Le Franglais: Forbidden English, Forbidden American: Law, Politics and Language in Contemporary France: A Study in|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W56vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|year=2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-7760-5|page=290}} Its readers are mostly of middle-class origin.{{cite web|author1=Mieke Ceulemans|author2=Guido Fauconnier|title=Mass Media: The Image, Role, and Social Conditions of Women|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0003/000370/037077eo.pdf|work=UNESCO|accessdate=30 May 2015|location=Paris|date=1979}} In July 2006 its circulation reached 250,000 copies.{{cite web|url=http://www.tarifmedia.com/article/article.cfm?idArticle=32515|title=Un bel été pour Closer, 20 ans et Biba|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...) }}