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Geneviève de Fontenay: "The centenary of Miss France is a real masquerade"

2020-12-18T13:10:42.177Z


The 88-year-old lady in the hat categorically refuses to be associated with the competition that she has nevertheless led for nearly fifty years and which is held on Saturday evening at Puy du Fou. Bitter, she is very angry with Sylvie Tellier, who succeeded her.


“I am far from being rich: the amount of my pension is only 1,255 euros per month.

Ten years after her departure from the leadership of the Miss France election, Geneviève de Fontenay says she is ruined.

A complaint which, without a doubt, also hides its frustration.

That of no longer leading the competition which is celebrating its centenary this Saturday at Puy du Fou.

An exasperation also to see evolve, even drift according to her, this institution.

An interview between nostalgia, resentment and contradictions assumed with the aplomb that characterizes it.

Read also: Miss France 2021: how the voting system has evolved since 1986

LE FIGARO - Why do you refuse to participate this Saturday in the Miss France election which celebrates its hundred years of existence?


Geneviève de FONTENAY

- Because I no longer have anything to do with them.

This Miss France election is a lie, a masquerade!

The centenary is not at all in 2020, but in 2028. As the social journalist and creator of the election Maurice de Waleffe writes in When Paris was a paradise, the first election

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Source: lefigaro

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