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Why there are actually three French candidates in the election

The French Indira Ampiot, Coraly Desplan and Catherine Edouard will be in the running to win the 73rd edition of Miss Universe on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

The French Indira Ampiot, Coraly Desplan and Catherine Edouard will be in the running to win the 73rd edition of Miss Universe on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

MISS UNIVERSE – Not one, not two, but three. This is the number of French Misses ready to seize the crown of Miss Universe in 2024. The 73rd edition, which takes place in Mexico City on the night of November 16 to 17, counts among its 127 candidates Indira Ampiot, elected Miss in 2023, but also Coraly Desplan for Guadeloupe and Catherine Edouard for .

These French overseas departments, confined to the rank of region during the Miss France election, mark their comeback in the international beauty contest after 40 years of absence and their last appearance in 1984. Coralyn Desplan is the sixth Miss Guadeloupe Universe while Catherine Edouard is the fourth Miss Martinique Universe, titles having no direct relationship with the qualifying competitions for the national election broadcast on TF1 each year.

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The French overseas territories will definitely be in the spotlight since Indira Ampiot, elected Miss France in 2023, is herself from the Guadeloupe region, where she won the regional competition in 2022.

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The latter received advice from Clémence Botino, Amandine Petit or Flora Coquerel, all Miss France having participated in Miss Universe, as she confided in an interview for Gala at the start of the week. In a video posted on social networks (see below), the young woman also revealed the national costume that she will wear during the competition.

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A magnificent sequined dress, decorated with a French flag and a beret with rope and rooster feathers. A costume that she designed herself. “I’ve been imagining it for a long time. I wanted to highlight something in which all French people will be able to recognize themselves”she always assures in Gala before revealing that he had especially sought to honor “all the French know-how”.

Only two titled French women

The Miss Universe 2024 competition will be broadcast during the night from Saturday to Sunday, from 2 a.m. on the Première channel. The election will be commented by Sylvie Tellier, former president of the Miss France committee and winner of the eponymous beauty contest in 2002. The show is expected to last nearly three hours, but a rebroadcast of the program is planned from 7:10 p.m. this Sunday, November 17.

Will one of the three French women manage to reach the grand final this Saturday evening which will see the 30 finalist candidates compete, and thus succeed the Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios, elected in 2023? According to Instagram predictions, none of the three are currently among the favorites.

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In the history of the competition, only two French women have emerged crowned, Christiane Martel in 1953 and Iris Mittenaere in 2016. Last year, Diane Leyre (Miss France 2022) failed to reach the top 20.

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