She laughs: “I’m the second oldest!” » At 28, Miss Franche-Comté only sees Miss Martinique, 34, as eldest. When she was younger, she would “never have dared” to introduce herself. “I was afraid of judgment. We are very exposed. All the girls on the bus inevitably had aggressive comments on the networks,” explains Manon Le Maou, with whom we speak on board a bus between the lagoon and Abidjan, where the thirty candidates for the election on December 14 at Futuroscope and on TF1 were preparing the competition at the end of November.
The young brunette woman decided on a hospital bed. She spent a month there, her face badly damaged by an accident. A career non-commissioned officer in the gendarmerie, she says: “Two years ago, I was driving the vehicle when we got a call from the BAC (Anti-crime brigade) for a refusal to comply. The fugitive hit us, the car fell into a ravine. It seemed super long to me. Human life is so fragile. A tree was embedded in the car. I took it all in the face, completely bloodied, but he saved us. I smelled the fire. We are taught to touch our limbs to check for injuries, it was okay. I managed to untie my colleague, we went back up the ravine. The other vehicle was on fire.” The fugitive had managed to escape and will be arrested. Manon, on her bed of pain, will decide to become Miss.
Last year, she tried out for Miss Corsica, where she works. The Franche-Comté woman finished second runner-up, in a region where no one knows her. No question of giving up. This year, she presents herself on her native lands and triumphs. On Instagram, she tells with humor her regional campaign: “A project, a dad, a dress, a story”. Or how she convinces her father, also a former police officer, to help her make her dress in two weeks for the Miss Franche-Comté election, in Dole in Jura. Commando timing for the young soldier, who grew up in barracks and has been working for nine years, notably in Alsace, Île-de-France and therefore in Corsica.
The last elected official from her region dates back to 1927. “Good luck, colleague! » her brigade shouted to her, and female gendarmes inquired with her, interested in the competition. She also brings her region. For her, winning would not be an accident.
