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Miss France 2025 will be elected this Saturday evening at Futuroscope in Poitiers. Since the first edition in 1920, the competition has changed the lives of several beauty queens, sometimes in unexpected ways.
The life of a young woman will completely change at the end of the evening: the candidate elected Miss France 2025. Thirty young women dream of hearing their name. The result will be announced around 12:30 a.m. this Saturday evening, live on TF1 from Futuroscope in Poitiers. In the past, becoming Miss France has changed the future of many young women for their entire lives. Close-up on five destinies like no other.
Yvette Labrousse
Daughter of a tram driver and a seamstress, Yvette Labrousse, Miss Lyon crowned 6th Miss France in 1930, married fourteen years later the Aga Khan III, former President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations. Yvette Labrousse, who became Beghum of the Ismailis, died at the age of 94 in July 2000, after a life marked by humanitarian commitment.
Valérie Pascal
Crowned Miss France 1986, Valérie Pascal, elected Miss Paris a year earlier, was recruited at the end of her reign as an announcer by FR3, the regional channel. M6 poached it for its launch. Return to public service a few years later as a presenter, before taking control of the game “Fort Boyard” for a while, while pursuing a career as an actress.
Mareva Galanter
69th Miss France in 1999, Mareva Galanter defended the colors of Tahiti, where she was born. From 2007 to 2010, M6 entrusted him with a music program. Former companion of fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Mareva Galanter then had a child with host Arthur. After the solo song, she joined the group “Nouvelle Vague”, before recreating the yéyé trio from the 60s “Les Parisiennes”, with Helena Noguerra, Inna Modja and Arielle Dombasle.
Elodie Gossuin
Doubly crowned Miss France and Miss Europe in 2000, Elodie Gossuin was the first beauty queen to win two successive mandates as general councilor of Picardy, from 2004 to 2015, on various right-wing lists. “At the beginning, people didn’t take me seriously,” she confided in TV Magazine. “It’s very difficult to escape from a caricatured image…”. Co-host of the RFM morning show for several years, Elodie Gossuin, 43, has not given up on a possible mandate as an MP.
Sylvie Tellier
A lawyer by training, holder of a master's degree in business law and taxation, Sylvie Tellier, elected Miss Lyon in 2001, was crowned Miss France 2002. Three years later, after the purchase of the competition by Endemol from the Fontenay family , she joined the Miss France Company as communications manager, before succeeding Geneviève de Fontenay as general director. She has today left her position within the Miss France company.
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