My dad just brought me a huge cardboard box full of old stuff that I thought were lost. In a massive file holder, I found a French teenage magazine from the 70's that I had bought in the early 80's in a discount/unsold stocks shop. The content magazine itself is not very interesting oscillating between very innocent and a tad stupid cartoons and a still very present pre-1968 flavour (you'll be a good kind housewife my girl).




The cover



A recurrent cartoon featuring adventurous redheaded twins




The 'celebrity' page. For whoever heard about Herve Vilard, they'll laugh. The graphism and gaudy colours are particularly well achieved.




Caroline... I remember reading some 'Caroline' cartoons. She had animals and was travelling on a house boat. I guess it was very popular in France but I was too little to be deeply impressed.




The only advertisement found in the magazine. Teenform is an american brand but it never took off in France as far as I know. Well we had DIM! Note the David Hamilton touch and the moody face of this poor pre-teengirl (oh my tits are growing, sigh). What was the sulking about? After all, there was a song saying...

Tu as quinze ans
Quoi de plus merveilleux ?
Les gens te diront
Que tu n'peux être plus heureux
Que tu n'as pas de soucis,
Pas d'impôts à payer
Pas de responsabilités
Tu as quinze ans et vraiment
Pas l'âge des tourments

You are 15
What else could be more wonderful?
People will tell you
You cannot be happier
You've got no worries
No taxes to pay
No responsibilities
You are 15 and really
Nothing to worry

'Ballade pour un puceau'/Ballad for a virgin by Michel Polnareff (excellent French music! Too rare not to mention it). And the much talked about poster while on tour at roughly the same period: