Crowned Miss France at 34, Angélique Angarni-Filopon is the symbol of a competition that is evolving. It was the first time that a woman in her thirties had participated and therefore also the first time that she had won.
Miss France 2025 crowned for the first time a woman in her thirties, Miss Martinique, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, this Saturday, December 14 in the evening on TF1, from Poitiers. Flight attendant, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, 34 years old, Miss Martinique 2024, is the first “eldest” of the contenders for the 95th Miss France ceremony and therefore the first thirty-year-old won the competition. The candidacy of a 52-year-old woman, however, did not go beyond the regional level this year.
A competition that opens its doors
Since 2022, the competition has also been open to women in relationships or mothers. The overhaul of the regulations also allows applications from transgender women “with change of marital status”. According to the organizers, only one reported case occurred during the Miss Paris election in 2022.
Always in the crosshairs of feminist associations denouncing a tradition “misogynistic and corny”the Miss France election continues its transformation with the lifting this year of all age limits.
For Frédéric Gilbert, president and producer of the Miss France company, “the competition highlights women in the greatest diversity, for more than three hours live.”
“From now on, audience peaks are achieved when candidates speak, not when they parade in swimsuits!” M. Gilbert pointed out to AFP on Saturday. “The success of Miss France is atypical, a cultural exception in Europe with 7 to 8 million viewers, and audience peaks of 9 million. The profiles of the candidates change with doctors, engineers or police officers”, welcomed the producer of the ceremony.
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