She dreams of taking off her shoes, of eating. Since her election to Miss France after an interminable Saturday evening, Angélique Angarni-Filopon has slept an hour, taken photos, interviews, obligations. This Sunday at 2:30 p.m., she arrives from TF 1, where Anne-Claire Coudray received her on the 1 p.m. news. She is cold, a draft catches her bare back, in the suite of this large hotel near the Champs-Élysées where she is going to spend the day. Her coat thrown over the shoulders of her red dress, she suppresses a yawn. It's the longest weekend of his life, and perhaps the happiest.
How are you holding up?
ANGELIC ANGARNI-FILOPON. (She smiles). We are in robot mode. Here we go. The brain is functioning, it knows it must execute, the body goes there without thinking.
At the moment of your coronation, you seemed stunned. Do you realize now?
Very slowly, yes. I'm starting, little by little.
You are 34 years old, you introduced yourself for the first time at 20 years old. When was Miss's very first desire?
At 19, I said to myself: Why not ? I was first runner-up to Miss Martinique at the time. Later there was this age limit until recently. The real trigger, very profound, I felt this year, during the preparation of the election, when Mr. Frédéric Gilbert showed us the tribute paid to Geneviève de Fontenay for her disappearance last year, and there I I had chills that ran all over my body. I said to myself: What if it was me? Really. I said to myself: We don't think and you give everything, Angélique. We don't go backwards, when we set the alarm we are happy to get up, we wake up our body to music, we don't ask ourselves any questions.
Your speech was very strong. Have you been preparing this sentence for a long time, “in the name of all the women who have been told, it’s too late”?
Tell yourself that this sentence only came the day before or two days before the speech, when I was rehearsing. At the beginning, I just said my pride in representing Martinique, the diaspora, as well as all women, and something was missing. That, I added. Almost by chance. Thinking of all these women of which I am one, who are afraid of being categorized because they have passed the age of 35 or are getting there, and they are told that it is too late to have a child, to change careers , to move.
Have you also heard these phrases about children?
Of course. It's too late, you're turning 34…In the long run, it can be a bit heavy on the mind, while it may not be the goal for people to hurt us, but it resonates within us and it's not necessarily an echo very positive.
You said that you have changed your outlook on yourself over the last month…
Yes, my habits were completely disrupted during the preparation for Miss France. I learned to see myself differently and I told myself that in any case, even if I didn't win, I wanted to completely change my wardrobe, make it more feminine, more assertive, maybe a a little less young, more of my age, a well-accomplished woman and proud of herself. I wear less makeup too, oddly enough. Before I wanted it all with make-up so that people could see my true beauty when in fact, it's there anyway.
What has changed between the Misses of 2011, during your first attempt, and those of 2025?
We leave room for their voices. We can express ourselves more. We have more of the right to have character, which does not mean bad character. A Miss can just assert herself and look good in her sneakers.
You grew up in Vauréal in Val-d'Oise, an important place for you. And where was your father an elected politician?
He became involved in politics in Île-de-France, then in Martinique. It was his passion, he taught us how the National Assembly worked. Myself, a schoolgirl in Vauréal, I was elected to the municipal youth council. It was in Vauréal that everything was forged for me and I was cradled in this little piece of 95, with a good West Indian culture very present in this town. My father had founded Colibri, an association which brought together West Indians two or three times a month. There were meals, evenings, banquets.
Is this a strong identity for you?
And a pride.
You have a beautiful history with Martinique to which you gave its first Miss France, but who revealed it to yourself when you moved there two years ago?
That's exactly it. I knew that by moving there it would trigger very good things, but I didn't think about that. There was a real letting go. I was used to controlling everything here, and there, the framework suited it, I completely relaxed. I needed to change my life at that time. Nothing here attached me, except my family. And my dad is there. I said to myself: Angelique, you can, a little courage. My job as a flight attendant allows me to come back often for my friends here.
Tell “your” Martinique…
My Martinique is incredible, warm, every time I have passengers on board, I tell them to close the Routard Guide, and to get lost. There is only one road in Martinique, so you can't really get lost. You have to ride, drive, go on the paths of the North, go back down to the more touristy South, we are the island of flowers, it's my own little rock, my corner of paradise.
What is a miss today, a real woman as you said?
A woman who is comfortable in her heels, who imposes and knows how to be respected, to be heard. There is no age to be a real woman, I can tell you that because the two 18 year old girls in the class had great character.
Like Sabah Aïb, Miss Nord Pas-de-Calais, your first runner-up. We saw you talking to each other a lot just before the coronation…
I told her that she was going to be the people's little doll, she told me that I deserved the crown and that she would be happy for me, we sent each other a lot of love. I tried to be kind to all the Misses all the time. When there was one who cried, I went to see her, when there was one who had sore feet, I went to massage her. We were a real small group and I think I was appreciated for my naturalness.
You were second behind Sabah in the public vote, it was the jury chaired by Sylvie Vartan with seven women who offered you the crown. Does this affect you?
Enormously. Perhaps my speech resonated with them. I would like to reach everyone, teenagers, children, elderly people.
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