The “Lady in the hat” has returned to her final resting place. Geneviève de Fontenay, historical figure of the Miss France contest, was buried this Tuesday afternoon in the intimacy of the family at the Parisian cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), we learned in her surroundings.
Died on July 31 at the end of the evening of a cardiac arrest, at the age of 90, Geneviève de Fontenay joined in the family vault her companion Louis Poirot dit de Fontenay and their eldest son Ludovic, who died in the 80s.
On several occasions in interviews, Geneviève de Fontenay had wanted her funeral to take place without a religious ceremony and in the strictest family privacy.