 During the period of 2007–2008 the circulation of the magazine was 275,000 copies.It was 264,000 copies in 2010, and about 146,000 in late 2016.During the 2007 French presidential election "Marianne"s editors Jean-François Kahn, Maurice Szafran and Nicolas Domenach openly supported the centre-right candidate François Bayrou, although at the same time they exposed "the editors' favourite" and advocated for French Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal.