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Miss Grand France
Formation2019
FounderSonia Aït Mansour
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersParis
Location
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,[1][2][3] held annually since 2019.[1] The contest's winners represent the country at its international parent platform, Miss Grand International.[1][4][5][6] Before 2019, all country representatives in such an international contest were appointed;[7][8] most of them were the Miss Prestige National finalists (currently, Miss Excellence France [fr]).[8][9][10][11]

The highest achievement reached by French representatives at the Miss Grand International pageant is the 3rd runner-up position, obtained by Safiétou Kabengele in 2024.

History

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Miss Grand France licensee timeline

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.[7][8] 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.[12]

Later in 2021, Mansour lost the franchise to another 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,[13] of whom a 24-year-old model from Aquitaine, Elodie Sirulnick, was announced the winner.[5][13][14] Along with the national crown, Sirulnick also won the prize for the Elegance and the Sympathy special awards.[13] The new organization later lost the license to a Venezuelan migrator, Robles Yanez of Celest Productions, in 2023.

Editions

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The following are the edition details of the Miss Grand France pageant, since its establishment in 2019.

Miss Grand France Editions
Year Edition Date Venue Entrants Winner Ref.
2019 1th 4 July La Villa Maasai, Paris 9 Cassandra De Sousa [1]
2020 2nd 5 July 13 Marine Comby [4][15]
2021 3rd 11 July Normandy Le Chantier Hotel, Paris 5 Elodie Sirulnick [5][13][14]
2022 4th 3 September Le Mughal Restaurant, Paris 10 Lucie Carbone [6]
2023 5th 13 August La Salicorne Restaurant, Saujon 9 Clémence Drouhaud [16]
2024 6th 8 May Theater of Longjumeau, Longjumeau 17 Safiétou Kabengele [2][3]

International competition

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The following is a list of French representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

Color keys
  •   : Declared as the winner
  •   : Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
  •   : Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
  •   : Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)
  •   : Ended as special awards winner
Year Region Miss Grand France Title Placement Special awards National director
2024 Normandy Safiétou Kabengele[17] Miss Grand France 2024 3rd runner-up[18] Robles Yanez
2023 Nouvelle-Aquitaine Clémence Drouhaud[16] Miss Grand France 2023 Top 20[19]
2022 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Lucie Carbone[6] Miss Grand France 2022 Unplaced[20] No data available
2021 Île-de-France Elodie Sirulnick[5] Miss Grand France 2021 Top 20[21]
2020 Nouvelle-Aquitaine Marine Comby[4] Miss Grand France 2020 Unplaced[22] Sonia Mansour
2019 Centre-Val de Loire Cassandra De Sousa[1] Miss Grand France 2019 Unplaced[23][24]
2018 Did not compete
2017 Île-de-France Sonia Aït Mansour[8] Miss Prestige Paris-Ile de France 2016[11] Unplaced[25] Réjane Klein Maurer
2016 Grand Est Océane Pernodet[9] Miss Prestige Lorraine 2014[10] Unplaced[26]
2015 Île-de-France Eline Lamboley[27] Miss Rose 2014[28] Top 20[29]
2014 Occitania Norma Julia[7] Miss Nationale 2014[7] Unplaced[30]
2013 Île-de-France Margaux Semenoff[31] Appointed Unplaced[32]
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National finalists

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The following list is the candidates of Miss Grand France in each year's edition.

Color keys
 W  Declared as the winner
  Ended as a runner-up
  Ended as a semifinalist
  Ended as a quaterfinalist
 Ṉ  Withdrew
 –  Did not participate
Represented 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
 Alsace Aya Kadjo
(1st)
 Antilles Léna Vairac
 Aquitaine Marine Ihuel
(4th)
Clémentine Albié
(1st)
 Auvergne Laure-Emmanuelle Marion Cleo Antignat
 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Noemie Ekoué Ines Buchaillat
 Bordeaux Océanne Facorat
(2nd)
 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Clara David Erika Fischer
(1st)
 Brittany (Bretagne) Juliette Tang Alizée Jego
(4th)
Ophélie Nicol
(4th)
Sarah Mandjou
(4th)
 Centre-Val de Loire Cassandra De Sousa
(W)
Anaïs Arnal
 Champagne-Ardenne Anne Djoba
 Communaute Etrangere Judith Bonang
 Corsica
 French Guiana (Guyane) Orianne Beuze Orianne Beuze
(1st)
 French Polynesia (Tahiti) Alicia Hoatua-Chave
 Grand Est Alice Delaroche[α]
(W)
Ornella J. Tyna Leclerc
(2nd)
Léna Vairac
(2nd)
 Guadeloupe Alexandra Gradel
 Hauts-de-France Magalie Kabengele
(1st)
Cutiesha Miranda Sua 
(2nd)
 Île-de-France Juliette Fage Julie Goursaud [α] 
(W)
Nancy Leong Morgane Chrétien Pauline Thimon
 Languedoc Manuella Gritar
 Loire-Atlantique Anna Jalia
 Maine-et-Loire Elma Guilleux
 Martinique Maeva Chambeau
(2nd)
 Mayotte
 Médoc Héloïse Mahieu
 Nancy Tyna Leclerc
 Nord-Pas-de-Calais Anais Legrand
 Normandy Jennifer Waldorf Yasmina Lopez Claire Lamon
(3rd)
Safietou Kabengele
(W)
 Nouvelle-Aquitaine Marine Comby 
(W)
Elodie Sirulnick 
(W)
Marion Dormignie
(3rd)
 Occitanie Loline Brama Cintia Santos Fanny Julien Salva
(3rd)
Chloe Maillot
 Paris Léonie Akar Anais Legrand
(3rd)
 Pays de la Loire Hélène Pillu Malaury Turpin Malaury Turpin
 Picardy Pauline Dubedat
 Poitou-Charentes Clemence Drouhuad
(W)
Lara Evaristo
 Provence Ilona Cassiano
 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Ruth Malenge Lucie Carbone
(W)
Oceane Ramella
 Réunion (La Réunion) Laetitia Boyer [β]
(2nd)
Kenya Nicol
 Rhône-Alpes Kamilla Yahiaoui
(1st)
Jennifer Malleron
Total 9 13 5 10 9 17
Note
 : Won the supplementary title, Miss Face of Beauty France, and obtained the right to compete at Face of Beauty International
 : Later dominated herself as Réunion's representative at Miss Grand International 2019.

References

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