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, 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] and Elodie Sirulnick in 2021.[11]

History

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.[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.[12]

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,[13] of whom a 24-year-old model from Aquitaine, Elodie Sirulnick, was announced the winner.[3][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, in 2023.

Editions

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

Miss Grand France Editions
YearEditionDateVenueEntrantsWinnerRef.
20191thJuly 4La Villa Maasai, Paris9Cassandra De Sousa[1]
20202ndJuly 513Marine Comby[2][15]
20213rdJuly 11Normandy Le Chantier Hotel, Paris5Elodie Sirulnick[3][13][14]
20224thSeptember 3Le Mughal Restaurant, Paris10Lucie Carbone[4]
20235thAugust 13La Salicorne Restaurant, Saujon9Clémence Drouhaud[16]

International competition

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

YearRepresentativeOriginal national titleInternational competition result[17]
PlacementOther awards
2013 Margaux Semenoff[18]AppointedUnplaced
2014 Norma Julia[5]Miss Nationale 2014[5]Unplaced
2015 Eline Lamboley[19]Miss Rose 2014[20]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 2019Unplaced
2020 Marine Comby[2]Miss Grand France 2020Unplaced
2021 Elodie Sirulnick[3]Miss Grand France 2021Top 20
2022 Lucie Carbone[4]Miss Grand France 2022Unplaced
2023 Clémence Drouhaud[16] Miss Grand France 2023 Top 20[21]
Color keys for the Placements at Miss Grand International
  Declared as the winner
  Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
  Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
  Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)

National finalists

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 semi-finalist
  Ended as a Quaterfinalist
   Did not participate
Region/ department/ city/ etc.20192020202120222023
 Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesNoemie EkouéInes Buchaillat
Laure-Emmanuelle Marion
Kamilla Yahiaoui
(1st)
 Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéClara DavidErika Fischer
(1st)
 BrittanyJuliette TangAlizée Jego
(4th)
Ophélie Nicol
 Centre-Val de LoireCassandra De Sousa 
(W)
Anaïs Arnal
 French GuianaOrianne BeuzeOrianne Beuze
(1st)
 French PolynesiaAlicia Hoatua-Chave
 Grand EstAlice Delaroche[α]
(W)
Ornella J.Tyna Leclerc
(2nd)
Léna Vairac
(2nd)
Aya Kadjo
 Hauts-de-FranceMagalie Kabengele
(1st)
Cutiesha Miranda Sua 
(2nd)
 Île-de-FranceJuliette FageJulie Goursaud[α] 
(W)
Morgane Chrétien
Léonie Akar
 NormandyJennifer WaldorfYasmina LopezClaire Lamon
(3rd)
 Nouvelle-AquitaineMarine Comby 
(W)
Elodie Sirulnick 
(W)
Marion Dormignie
(3rd)
Marine Ihuel
(4th)
Océanne Facorat
Héloïse Mahieu
Clemence Drouhuad
 OccitanieLoline BramaCintia SantosFanny Julien Salva
 Pays de la LoireHélène PilluMalaury Turpin
 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurRuth MalengeLucie Carbone
(W)
Oceane Ramella
 RéunionLaetitia Boyer[β]
(2nd)
Total9135109
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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