Miss Grand France

For the most recent edition, see Miss Grand France 2024.

Miss Grand France is a French female national beauty pageant,^[1][2][3] held annually since 2019.^[1] The contest's winners represent the country at its international parent platform, Miss Grand International.^[1][4][5][6] Before 2019, all country representatives in such an international contest were appointed;^[7][8] most of them were the Miss Prestige National finalists (currently, Miss Excellence France [fr]).^{[8][9][10][11]}

Miss Grand France

Formation	2019
Founder	Sonia Aït Mansour
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Paris
Location	France
Membership	Miss Grand International
Official language	French
National director	Robles Yanez
Parent organization	Celest Productions (2023 – Present)

The highest achievement reached by French representatives at the Miss Grand International pageant is the 3rd runner-up position, obtained by Safiétou Kabengele in 2024.

History

Miss Grand France licensee timeline

France usually participates in almost every edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, except in 2018. In the first era of the procession, its representatives were appointed to join the contest by different national directors.^[7][8] However, after an absence in 2018, Sonia Mansour, former Miss Grand France, purchased the franchise in 2019, and consequently ran the first contest of Miss Grand France on 4 July 2019, on which Cassandra De Sousa was named the winner, outclassed 8 other national finalists.^[1] De Sousa later competed at Miss Grand International 2019 in Venezuela in October of that year but was unplaced.^[12]

Later in 2021, Mansour lost the franchise to another organization, which continued to arrange the Miss Grand National contest; however, due to the health restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was held privately and only consisted of five national finalists,^[13] of whom a 24-year-old model from Aquitaine, Elodie Sirulnick, was announced the winner.^[5][13][14] Along with the national crown, Sirulnick also won the prize for the Elegance and the Sympathy special awards.^[13] The new organization later lost the license to a Venezuelan migrator, Robles Yanez of Celest Productions, in 2023.

Editions

The following are the edition details of the Miss Grand France pageant, since its establishment in 2019.

Miss Grand France Editions

Year	Edition	Date	Venue	Entrants	Winner	Ref.
2019	1th	4 July	La Villa Maasai, Paris	9	Cassandra De Sousa	[1]
2020	2nd	5 July		13	Marine Comby	[4][15]
2021	3rd	11 July	Normandy Le Chantier Hotel, Paris	5	Elodie Sirulnick	[5][13][14]
2022	4th	3 September	Le Mughal Restaurant, Paris	10	Lucie Carbone	[6]
2023	5th	13 August	La Salicorne Restaurant, Saujon	9	Clémence Drouhaud	[16]
2024	6th	8 May	Theater of Longjumeau, Longjumeau	17	Safiétou Kabengele	[2][3]

International competition

The following is a list of French representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

Color keys

•   : Declared as the winner
•   : Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
•   : Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
•   : Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)
•   : Ended as special awards winner

Year	Region	Miss Grand France	Title	Placement	Special awards	National director
2025	TBD	TBD	Miss Grand France 2025	TBD
2024	Normandy	Safiétou Kabengele[17]	Miss Grand France 2024	3rd runner-up[18]		Robles Yanez
2023	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Clémence Drouhaud[16]	Miss Grand France 2023	Top 20[19]
2022	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Lucie Carbone[6]	Miss Grand France 2022	Unplaced[20]		No data available
2021	Île-de-France	Elodie Sirulnick[5]	Miss Grand France 2021	Top 20[21]
2020	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Marine Comby[4]	Miss Grand France 2020	Unplaced[22]		Sonia Mansour
2019	Centre-Val de Loire	Cassandra De Sousa[1]	Miss Grand France 2019	Unplaced[23][24]
2018	Did not compete
2017	Île-de-France	Sonia Aït Mansour[8]	Miss Prestige Paris-Ile de France 2016[11]	Unplaced[25]		Réjane Klein Maurer
2016	Grand Est	Océane Pernodet[9]	Miss Prestige Lorraine 2014[10]	Unplaced[26]
2015	Île-de-France	Eline Lamboley[27]	Miss Rose 2014[28]	Top 20[29]
2014	Occitania	Norma Julia[7]	Miss Nationale 2014[7]	Unplaced[30]
2013	Île-de-France	Margaux Semenoff[31]	Appointed	Unplaced[32]

Gallery

• 
  Miss Grand France 2014
  Norma Julia
• 
  Miss Grand France 2015
  Eline Lamboley
• 
  Miss Grand France 2021
  Elodie Sirulnick
• 
  Miss Grand France 2022
  Lucie Carbone
• 
  Miss Grand France 2024
  Safiétou Kabengele

National finalists

The following list is the candidates of Miss Grand France in each year's edition.

Color keys

 W  Declared as the winner

  Ended as a runner-up

  Ended as a semifinalist

  Ended as a quarterfinalist

 Ṉ  Withdrew

 –  Did not participate

Represented		2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Alsace		—	—	—	—	Aya Kadjo (1st)	—
Antilles		—	—	—	—	—	Léna Vairac
Aquitaine		—	—	—	Marine Ihuel (4th)	—	Clémentine Albié (1st)
Auvergne		—	—	—	Laure-Emmanuelle Marion	—	Cleo Antignat
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes		Noemie Ekoué	Ines Buchaillat	—	—	—	—
Bordeaux		—	—	—	—	Océanne Facorat (2nd)	—
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté		—	Clara David	Erika Fischer (1st)	—	—	—
Brittany (Bretagne)		—	Juliette Tang	Alizée Jego (4th)	—	Ophélie Nicol (4th)	Sarah Mandjou (4th)
Centre-Val de Loire		Cassandra De Sousa (W)	Anaïs Arnal	—	—	—	—
Champagne-Ardenne		—	—	—	—	—	Anne Djoba
Communaute Etrangere		—	—	—	—	—	Judith Bonang
Corsica		—	—	—	—	—	—
French Guiana (Guyane)		Orianne Beuze	Orianne Beuze (1st)	—	—	—	—
French Polynesia (Tahiti)		—	—	—	Alicia Hoatua-Chave	—	—
Grand Est		Alice Delaroche[α] (W)	Ornella J.	Tyna Leclerc (2nd)	Léna Vairac (2nd)	—	—
Guadeloupe		—	—	—	—	—	Alexandra Gradel
Hauts-de-France		Magalie Kabengele (1st)	Cutiesha Miranda Sua  (2nd)	—	—	—	—
Île-de-France		Juliette Fage	Julie Goursaud [α]  (W)	—	Nancy Leong	Morgane Chrétien	Pauline Thimon
Languedoc		—	—	—	—	—	Manuella Gritar
Loire-Atlantique		—	—	—	—	—	Anna Jalia
Maine-et-Loire		—	—	—	—	—	Elma Guilleux
Martinique		—	—	—	—	—	Maeva Chambeau (2nd)
Mayotte		—	—	—	—	—	—
Médoc		—	—	—	—	Héloïse Mahieu	—
Nancy		—	—	—	Tyna Leclerc	—	—
Nord-Pas-de-Calais		—	—	—	—	—	Anais Legrand
Normandy		Jennifer Waldorf	Yasmina Lopez	Claire Lamon (3rd)	—	—	Safietou Kabengele (W)
Nouvelle-Aquitaine		—	Marine Comby  (W)	Elodie Sirulnick  (W)	Marion Dormignie (3rd)	—	—
Occitanie		Loline Brama	Cintia Santos	—	—	Fanny Julien Salva (3rd)	Chloe Maillot
Paris		—	—	—	Léonie Akar	—	Anais Legrand (3rd)
Pays de la Loire		—	Hélène Pillu	—	—	Malaury Turpin	Malaury Turpin
Picardy		—	—	—	—	—	Pauline Dubedat
Poitou-Charentes		—	—	—	—	Clemence Drouhuad (W)	Lara Evaristo
Provence		—	—	—	—	—	Ilona Cassiano
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur		—	Ruth Malenge	—	Lucie Carbone (W)	Oceane Ramella	—
Réunion (La Réunion)		Laetitia Boyer [β] (2nd)	—	—	—	—	Kenya Nicol
Rhône-Alpes		—	—	—	Kamilla Yahiaoui (1st)	—	Jennifer Malleron
Total		9	13	5	10	9	17
Note ^α : Won the supplementary title, Miss Face of Beauty France, and obtained the right to compete at Face of Beauty International ^β : Later dominated herself as Réunion's representative at Miss Grand International 2019.