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| Type | Beauty pageant |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Country represented | France |
| Qualifies for | |
| First edition | 1920; 105 years ago (1920) |
| Most recent edition | 2025 |
| Current titleholder | Angélique Angarni-Filopon Martinique |
President | Frédéric Gilbert |
| Language | French |
| Website | miss-france |
Miss France is a nationalbeauty pageant in France held annually in December. The competition was first held in 1920, and has been organized continuously since 1947. The trademark for the pageant is owned by the company Miss France SAS, and is a subsidiary ofEndemol Shine France. The competition is currently aired onTF1.
The Miss France pageant was first organized in 1920, under the nameLa plus belle femme de France (English:The most beautiful woman of France), and was held for one additional year before being abandoned until 1927. That year, the competition was rebranded into Miss France, and was held annually until it was disrupted in 1940, due toWorld War II. In 1947, following the end of the war, the competition was revived and has been held annually since. In 1954, Guy Lévy founded the Miss France Committee (French:comité Miss France) to organize the competition.Geneviève de Fontenay took over the Miss France Committee in 1981, until departing in 2007. Following the departure of de Fontenay,Sylvie Tellier served as the national director of Miss France until August 2022, when she was replaced byCindy Fabre. In October 2021,Alexia Laroche-Joubert was announced as the new president of the Miss France Committee, working alongside Tellier and later Fabre. In March 2023, Frédéric Gilbert, a longtime producer of Miss France, was appointed by Laroche-Joubert as director-general. Laroche-Joubert departed from the Miss France Committee in December 2023, and was replaced by Gilbert. Fabre later departed as well in January 2025.
Contestants of Miss France must meet a number of eligibility requirements and first win a regional title which qualifies them for the national competition, representing their region. A number of these regions also organize local competitions corresponding with cities anddepartments within the region, which must be won first before one can progress to competing in the regional competition. The winner of Miss France resides inParis during her year of reign in a rent-free apartment, in addition to winning a number of additional prizes and sponsorship deals while receiving a monthly salary. Typically, the winner represents France at eitherMiss Universe orMiss World, while her first runner-up competes at the other pageant. In some instances, the predecessor of the reigning titleholder would compete at the other pageant or the two would switch years in order to avoid any scheduling conflicts between their assigned international pageant and the next Miss France competition.
The current Miss France isAngélique Angarni-Filopon, who was crowned on 14 December 2024 atMiss France 2025. She had previously been crownedMiss Martinique 2024, and is the first woman from Martinique to win the title.
The Miss France was first organized in 1920, under the nameLa plus belle femme de France (English:The most beautiful woman of France). The competition was founded by journalist Maurice de Waleffe, who chose to have the winner be decided by French filmgoers.[1] After more than 1,700 women applied for the competition, 49 finalists were chosen. The competition was held over the course of several weeks, with filmgoers being given a ballot with seven women, and asked to select their favorite.Agnès Souret was selected as the inaugural winner. The following year, the competition was held again, with Pauline Pô winning the competition. However,La plus belle femme de France was later abandoned after 1921.[2]
Six years later the competition was revived under the name Miss France, with a new format organized by Robert and Jean Cousin.[2] Miss France continued to be held annually until 1940, whenWorld War II disrupted entertainment events. The competition resumed in 1947, and has been held annually since then.Geneviève de Fontenay, who had begun her career with the Miss France Committee in 1954, became its president in 1981, transforming it into a company, and bringing it to a live broadcast in 1986, when the competition became the first edition of Miss France to be broadcast live on national television. The contest was first aired onFrance Régions 3 [fr] and remained on the same channel until 1995. In 1995, the live broadcast ofMiss France 1996 was moved toTF1, where it has remained since.[3] In 2011, a dissident competition,Miss Excellence France [fr] was launched by Geneviève de Fontenay after her resignation from the Miss France Society in April 2010.[4][5]
In October 2021,Alexia Laroche-Joubert was announced as the new president of the Miss France Committee, working alongsideSylvie Tellier, the national director.[6] In August 2022, Tellier was reported to have resigned her position as national director of Miss France, and was replaced byCindy Fabre. Tellier continued to serve in an advisory role with the organization, until her departure at the conclusion ofMiss France 2023.[7] In March 2023, Frédéric Gilbert, a longtime producer of Miss France, was appointed by Laroche-Joubert as director-general.[8] In November 2023, Laroche-Joubert announced she would resign from her leadership role with Miss France following the conclusion ofMiss France 2024, due to her responsibilities as CEO ofBanijay France; she was replaced by Gilbert as president upon her departure.[9] Fabre later departed as well in January 2025.[10][11]
Osez le féminisme, a French feminist organization, sued Miss France and its parent company, Endemol Production, in 2021 for sexist and discriminatory regulations.[12] The lawsuit argued that the contestants in the pageant should be considered employees of the competition, thereby forbidding Miss France and Endemol from engaging in discrimination.[13] A Paris court later dismissed the group's claims and threw out the lawsuit in January 2023.[14]
In April 2024, it was revealed that a museum dedicated to Miss France would open in the town ofSaint-Raphaël in theVardepartment in 2025.[15][16] The opening of the museum was later postponed to 2026 for budgetary reasons.[17]
Each year, contestants are chosen through a series of regional pageants held throughoutmetropolitan andoverseas France in the summer and autumn before the national competition. Over time, the regions represented at Miss France have varied slightly. The following 31 regional pageants currently send contestants to Miss France:
The regional competitions are organized by regional committees, and contestants must reside in the region they choose to represent. Regional committees have their own discretion as to how they wish to field candidates for the regional competitions. Some choose to organize a number of local competitions corresponding to cities ordepartments within the region, while others use open casting processes. Public voting is used to select winners of both regional pageants and the national competition.[18][19][20][21][22] The winner of the national competition subsequently receives a number of prizes, including a rent-free apartment inParis, sponsorship deals, and a monthly salary.[23][24][25]
In order to compete in Miss France, contestants must meet the following eligibility requirements:[26]
Contestants must:
Contestants must not:
The pageant's code of ethics also requires that contestants not engage in smoking or public alcohol consumption. Failure to comply with pageant rules carries a fine of 5,000 Euro.[27]
Prior toMiss France 2023, contestants also could not have been married, divorced, or widowed; have children or have been pregnant; be above the age of 24 on 1 November of the year of the competition; or have visible tattoos or non-ear piercings.[18][26]
| Year | Miss France | Region | Age[a] | Hometown | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Angélique Angarni-Filopon |  Martinique | 34 | Fort-de-France | |
| 2024 | Eve Gilles |  Nord-Pas-de-Calais | 20 | Quaëdypre | Top 30 atMiss Universe 2025 |
| 2023 | Indira Ampiot |  Guadeloupe | 18 | Basse-Terre | Top 30 atMiss Universe 2024 |
| 2022 | Diane Leyre |  Île-de-France | 24 | Paris | |
| 2021 | Amandine Petit |  Normandy | 23 | Bourguébus | Top 21 atMiss Universe 2020 |
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| Number | Region | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Île-de-France | |
| 7 | Normandy |
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 Rhône-Alpes |
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 Aquitaine |
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| 6 |  Alsace |
|
 Brittany |
| |
 Côte d'Azur |
| |
| 5 |  Tahiti |
|
| 4 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
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| Guadeloupe |
| |
 Picardy |
| |
| 3 | ||
 Burgundy |
| |
 Languedoc |
| |
 Lorraine |
| |
 Pays de la Loire |
| |
 Poitou-Charentes |
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| 2 |  Réunion |
|
 Franche-Comté |
| |
| 1 | Martinique |
|
 French Guiana |
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 Centre-Val de Loire |
| |
 Midi-Pyrénées |
| |
 Provence |
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 New Caledonia |
| |
 Morocco[g] |
| |
 Roussillon |
| |
 Saar[h] |
| |
 Corsica |
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