This Monday, January 7, 1963, returning to school, after the Christmas holidays, it is with a new eye that the students of the Bel-Air high school in Angoulême look at the young math teacher responsible for explaining to them the daily mysteries of algebra and equations. And for good reason. Crowned Miss France on New Year’s Eve, Miss Muguette Fabris, the brunette beauty who, on Sundays, cleans windshields to help her parents at their gas station, officially became, between the two years, “the “most beautiful of the beautiful”!
Co sponsored by “Sud Ouest”
As beautiful as Cleopatra or Sophia Loren
Sponsored by “Sud Ouest” with the Federal Union of Veterans and the Bordeaux Tourist Office, the “Festival of Elegance and Beauty” took place on New Year’s Eve, Monday December 31, 1962, at Bordeaux, at the Grand-Théâtre. It was the fifteenth French competition of its kind and also the second to take place in the Gironde capital. For the occasion, the Palais de Victor Louis programmed an operetta, “The Unknown of Saint-Moritz”, which attracted a full house. As soon as the curtain fell, serious things began, with the parade of seventeen beauty queens from the four corners of France, adorned with fur and jewelry and presented by the general delegate of the Miss France Committee, Louis Poirot de Fontenay.
Muguette Fabris, Miss France 1963, December 19, 2020.
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At the end of long deliberations – for the jury, chaired by the eminent professor René Girard, doctor of medicine and president of the Bordeaux tourist office, the choice was very difficult – it was finally at 2 a.m. that the verdict fell: Muguette Fabris, favorite of the public, won. As beautiful as Cleopatra or Sophia Loren, with ideal measurements (90-50-90 and 1.69 meters for 54 kilos), the 22-year-old Angoumoisine represented Île-de-France.
Head as full as well as well shaped, she will fulfill her obligations as a beauty queen without ever giving up her vocation as a teacher.
