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Formation | 2019 |
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Founder | Sonia Aït Mansour |
Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Paris |
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Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language | French |
National director | Robles Yanez |
Parent organization | Celest Productions (2023 – Present) |
Miss Grand France is a French female national beauty pageant, held annually since 2019.[1] The contest's winners represent the country at its international parent platform, Miss Grand International.[1][2][3][4] Before 2019, all country representatives in such an international contest were appointed;[5][6] most of them were the Miss Prestige National finalists (currently, Miss Excellence France ).[6][7][8][9]
The highest achievement reached by French representatives at the Miss Grand International pageant is the final 20 position, obtained by Eline Lamboley in 2015,[10] Elodie Sirulnick in 2021,[11] and Clémence Drouhaud in 2023.[12]
France usually participates in almost every edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, except in 2018. In the first era of the procession, its representatives were appointed to join the contest by different national directors.[5][6] However, after an absence in 2018, Sonia Mansour, former Miss Grand France, purchased the franchise in 2019, and consequently ran the first contest of Miss Grand France on 4 July 2019, on which Cassandra De Sousa was named the winner, outclassed 8 other national finalists.[1] De Sousa later competed at Miss Grand International 2019 in Venezuela in October of that year but was unplaced.[13]
Later in 2021, Mansour lost the franchise to the other organization, which continued to arrange the Miss Grand National contest; however, due to the health restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was held privately and only consisted of five national finalists,[14] of whom a 24-year-old model from Aquitaine, Elodie Sirulnick, was announced the winner.[3][14][15] Along with the national crown, Sirulnick also won the prize for the Elegance and the Sympathy special awards.[14] The new organization later lost the license to a Venezuelan migrator, Robles Yanez of Celest Productions, in 2023.
The following are the edition details of the Miss Grand France pageant, since its establishment in 2019.
Year | Edition | Date | Venue | Entrants | Winner | Ref. |
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2019 | 1th | July 4 | La Villa Maasai, Paris | 9 | Cassandra De Sousa | [1] |
2020 | 2nd | July 5 | 13 | Marine Comby | [2][16] | |
2021 | 3rd | July 11 | Normandy Le Chantier Hotel, Paris | 5 | Elodie Sirulnick | [3][14][15] |
2022 | 4th | September 3 | Le Mughal Restaurant, Paris | 10 | Lucie Carbone | [4] |
2023 | 5th | August 13 | La Salicorne Restaurant, Saujon | 9 | Clémence Drouhaud | [17] |
2024 | 6th | May | Paris | [18] |
The following is a list of French representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year | Representative | Original national title | International competition result[19] | ||
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Placement | Other awards | ||||
2013 | Margaux Semenoff[20] | Appointed | Unplaced | — | |
2014 | Norma Julia[5] | Miss Nationale 2014[5] | Unplaced | — | |
2015 | Eline Lamboley[21] | Miss Rose 2014[22] | Top 20 | — | |
2016 | Océane Pernodet[7] | Miss Prestige Lorena 2014[8] | Unplaced | — | |
2017 | Sonia Aït Mansour[6] | Miss Prestige Paris-Ile de France 2016[9] | Unplaced | — | |
2019 | Cassandra De Sousa[1] | Miss Grand France 2019 | Unplaced | — | |
2020 | Marine Comby[2] | Miss Grand France 2020 | Unplaced | — | |
2021 | Elodie Sirulnick[3] | Miss Grand France 2021 | Top 20 | — | |
2022 | Lucie Carbone[4] | Miss Grand France 2022 | Unplaced | — | |
2023 | Clémence Drouhaud[17] | Miss Grand France 2023 | Top 20[12] | — | |
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The following list is the candidates of Miss Grand France in each year's edition.
Region/ department/ city/ etc. | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||
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Noemie Ekoué | Ines Buchaillat | — | — | — | |||
— | — | — | Laure-Emmanuelle Marion | — | ||||
— | — | — | Kamilla Yahiaoui (1st) |
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— | Clara David | Erika Fischer (1st) |
— | — | |||
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— | Juliette Tang | Alizée Jego (4th) |
— | Ophélie Nicol | |||
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Cassandra De Sousa (W) |
Anaïs Arnal | — | — | — | |||
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Orianne Beuze | Orianne Beuze (1st) |
— | — | — | |||
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— | — | — | Alicia Hoatua-Chave | — | |||
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Alice Delaroche[α] (W) |
Ornella J. | Tyna Leclerc (2nd) |
Léna Vairac (2nd) |
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— | — | — | — | Aya Kadjo | ||||
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Magalie Kabengele (1st) |
Cutiesha Miranda Sua (2nd) |
— | — | — | |||
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Juliette Fage | Julie Goursaud[α] (W) |
— | — | Morgane Chrétien | |||
— | — | — | Léonie Akar | — | ||||
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Jennifer Waldorf | Yasmina Lopez | Claire Lamon (3rd) |
— | — | |||
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— | Marine Comby (W) |
Elodie Sirulnick (W) |
Marion Dormignie (3rd) |
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— | — | — | Marine Ihuel (4th) |
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— | — | — | — | Océanne Facorat | ||||
— | — | — | — | Héloïse Mahieu | ||||
— | — | — | — | Clemence Drouhuad | ||||
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Loline Brama | Cintia Santos | — | — | Fanny Julien Salva | |||
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— | Hélène Pillu | — | — | Malaury Turpin | |||
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— | Ruth Malenge | — | Lucie Carbone (W) |
Oceane Ramella | |||
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Laetitia Boyer[β] (2nd) |
— | — | — | — | |||
Total | 9 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 9 | |||
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