Host Antoine de Caunes launches “Vieux”, a new “anti-youth” magazine

This magazine marks a return to his roots for Antoine de Caunes, who began his career as a freelancer for the written press. A title like a wink for this 70-year-old journalist.

“I assume…!“: Antoine de Caunes is the co-pilot of a new quarterly magazine, Old, which adopts the irreverent tone of the TV and media troublemaker, to be found on newsstands on Wednesday May 29. “If we launch ourselves, it’s because age is unthinkable, a French denial“, affirms in a press release Romain Jubert, who initiated it and took the editorial direction.

It is “to step aside“, at “a time when we celebrate youthfulness, vitality, immediacy”, explains to AFP the editorial advisor and editor of Old70 years on the clock and nothing “resigned“. The society magazine, whose first issue (7.90 euros) has a print run of 100,000 copies, is published by CMI France (Elle, Télé 7 jours…). The group of Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky founded eight newspapers since its creation five years ago.

On the menu of these 130 polished pages are a cross-interview between environmental activist Camille Etienne and veteran Brice Lalonde, a column by comedian Florence Foresti (How do I know that I have become old), news files, health sections, design and a cultural bath.

There we find the signatures of chef Thierry Marx, academician Barbara Cassin, director Patrice Leconte and photographer Jean-Marie Périer. “I called my friends“, says Antoine de Caunes, who himself interviews the actors Daniel Auteuil and Denis Podalydès.

But no nostalgia or look back in the style of the magazine Schnock, which delves into popular culture from the 1950s to the 1980s, he assures. “What interests me is today. Although old, I feel like I have the appetite and appetite of a 20 year old kid.“, affirms the presenter, who does not intend to address only seniors. “I spend my life writing” And “my writing is really my voice“, confides the jack-of-all-trades, who also runs a weekly show on cinema for Canal+.