“It’s an honor to stand in front of you. When I won the Miss Martinique competition, I told the people of Martinique that we were going to do it together. And we did it together! Thank you!”, declared in tears the beauty queen, who succeeds Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024 and Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2023.
Her runners-up are respectively Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2024, Sabah Aïb, 18 years old, Miss Corsica 2024, Stella Vangioni, 27 years old, Miss Guadeloupe 2024, Moïra André, 27 years old and Miss Côte d’Azur 2024, Lilou Emeline- Artuso, 21 years old.
Thirty candidates aged 18 to 34 took part in the final of the Miss France 2025 competition presented for the 30th time by the indestructible Jean-Pierre Foucault, while the Netherlands decided on Thursday to scuttle their beauty competition, believing that it would not was “more of this time”.
No more age limit
Always in the crosshairs of feminist associations denouncing a “misogynistic and old-fashioned” tradition, the Miss France election continues its transformation with the lifting since this year of all age limits.
Angélique Angarni-Filopon had already run for the Miss Martinique election in 2011. She decided to run again on the occasion of the modernization of the competition banned for years to women over 24 years old.
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First participation in 2011
“In 2011, a young woman aged 20 finished first runner-up in the Miss Martinique competition. Today, it is this same young woman aged 34 who stands before you to once again represent Martinique, its diaspora as well that all the women who were told one day that it was too late”, said Miss France 2025 when she spoke during the ceremony.
Chaired this year by singer Sylvie Vartan, the Miss France jury was 100% female and brought together Olympic champion Marie-José Pérec, host and stylist Cristina Cordula, dancer Fauve Hautot, comedian Nawell Madani, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and the former Miss France Flora Coquerel.
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