Who will win the title of Miss France 2024 this year? Miss Alsace, who passed the general knowledge test with flying colors last November? Miss Côte d’Azur, acclaimed by the company’s artificial intelligence Avisia ? To find out, you will have to wait until Saturday evening, at the end of the endless competition ceremony broadcast from 9:10 p.m. on TF1.
Since the beauty contest was broadcast on TV in 1987, however, we have noticed that certain candidates, or rather their regions, are luckier than others. Starting with Guadeloupe, with four crowned misses, the latest of which is none other than Indira Ampiot, Miss France 2023. Alsace, the Rhône-Alpes region and even Nord-Pas-de-Calais are also in the running. regularly the first place on the podium with three respective victories. Among them, there is notably Nathalie Marquay (1987), Sylvie Tellier (2002) and Iris Mittenaere (2016).
At Miss France as elsewhere there are winners, and there are losers. A handful of participants have never won the crown once, although some of them have managed to make it to the final 5 finalists. Champagne-Ardenne, Martinique, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon… A brief overview of these poorly-off regions.
So close to victory…
Martinique is one of the candidates who have come closest to the sparkling tiara of Miss France the most, without ever obtaining it. In thirty years of participation in the competition, 9 misses have qualified among the 5 finalists, 3 of them as 1st runner-up. Among them, Floriane Bascou in 2021, coming in second position after Diane Leyre, Miss France 2022. Will Chléo Modestine, Miss Martinique this year, finally reach this milestone? Limousin also glimpsed victory on several occasions without snatching it away. Since 1987, 9 candidates have won their place in the 15 semi-finalists, 3 in the top 5. Sophie Vouzelaud was even elected 1st runner-up to Rachel Legrain-Trapani in 2006. Enough to put pressure on Agathe Toullieu, Miss Limousin 2024 , to match or surpass its predecessor.
After two years of absence, Mayotte returns to the game with Houdayifa Chibaco. “We are eagerly awaited,” said the young woman to Leisure TV. “In terms of pressure, I try not to think about it too much (…) I tell myself that I will take full advantage of it, and try to really take advantage of that to create a sort of springboard for Mayotte, to highlight this department that we haven’t seen much for two years,” she added. Since the creation of the committee in 2000, 4 candidates have managed to be selected in the 15 semi-finalists, but only Esthel Born in 2008 reached the title of 3rd runner-up, the year of Chloé Mortaud’s victory.
Other big forgotten ones are Champagne-Ardenne (5 misses in the top 15 since 1987, including a 3rd runner-up in 2017) and Auvergne (10 misses in the top 15 since 1987, including 3 in the top 5). In 2016, the Center-Val-de-Loire and Auvergne delegate for Miss France deplored an insufficient number of local elections ahead of the competition. “It is still a job to organize an election, and unfortunately I realize that there are fewer and fewer people” to take care of it in Auvergne, explained Jean-Jacques Sabourin to The mountain. That same year, only the Allier department organized a local election to designate the regional miss to be sent to the national competition. For its part, Nord-Pas-de-Calais had organized around twenty, the newspaper said.
Dotted participations and lack of resources
Scattered local elections, lack of resources… The most struggling misses are among the overseas communities. Since their participation in 2000, only six Miss Wallis and Futuna have participated in the competition and none has been crowned Miss France. Due to a lack of candidates and sufficient funding, as reported la1ere.francetvinfo.fr in 2015, the committee did not participate in the competition for many years, from 2005 to 2019, then from 2021 to 2023. Mylène Halemai, a Franco-Australian tennis player, is the latest representative, in 2020.
In Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, where the competition was created late, in 2008, the lack of candidates is also lacking in the committee. The archipelago even had to cancel your participation in the election for this reason in 2019. Her last participation dates back to 2017. Zero Miss France also for Miss Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, who for several years participated in the competition alternating with Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Only Layla Berry, in 2019, managed to climb among the 15 semi-finalists.
Will the 2024 edition still crown one of the favorite regions of the competition or will it give a chance to one of the outsiders? End of the suspense during the night from Saturday to Sunday.