The Miss France competition lifted the age limit for the first time this year, allowing candidates over 24 to run. A new rule that benefited Martinique's Angélique Angarni-Filopon, elected Miss France 2025 age 34.
© TF1 Angélique Angarni-Filopon is Miss France 2025
IN BRIEF
- Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss Martinique 2024, was elected Miss France 2025 on December 14, 2024, becoming the first Miss Martinique to win this title.
- At 34, she made history by being the oldest winner and stressed that “34 is young”, sending a strong message about the realization of dreams.
- Her election illustrates the evolution of the Miss France competition towards more modernity and openness, despite persistent criticism.
Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss Martinique 2024, was crowned Miss France 2025 this Saturday, December 14, 2024 at the Futuroscope in Poitiers. At 34, she becomes the oldest winner in the history of the competition. A doubly historic victory since it is also the first time that a Miss Martinique wins the crown.
A deserved and moving victory
“It is an honor to stand before you. When I won the Miss Martinique contest, I told the people of Martinique that we would do it together. And we did it together! Thank you!”, declared Angélique Angarni-Filopon in tears after her victory. Her runners-up are Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Miss Corsica, Miss Guadeloupe and Miss Côte d'Azur.
During her speech during the ceremony, Miss France 2025 also recalled her journey: “In 2011, a young woman aged 20 finished first runner-up in the Miss Martinique contest. Today, it is this same young woman aged 34 who stands before you to once again represent Martinique, its diaspora and all women in who was once told that it was too late”.
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&At 34, Angélique Angarni-Filopon did not hesitate to re-enter the Miss Martinique competition in 2024, after a first participation in 2011 where she finished first runner-up. Her election last September opened the doors to the national competition for her. “I was the 14th regional miss elected on September 14, and I was elected Miss France on December 14. It's quite incredible”, she stressed during her first press conference after her coronation.
Miss France 2025 also says she is “well preserved”despite her age, which she fully accepts. “34 is young”, she says with humor. Her victory sends a strong message to all women: it is never too late to make your dreams come true. “In the end, it was far from my mind that I could win”, confides the one who was able to stand out among the 29 other candidates by her atypical and endearing life path.
Criticisms that persist despite the éevolutions
If the Miss France contest has changed its rules this year by removing the age limit, it remains in the crosshairs of feminist associations who denounce a “misogynistic and old-fashioned” tradition. Elsewhere in Europe, things are also changing: this week, the Netherlands announced the end of its beauty contest national, considering that this format was “no longer of this time”.
The Miss France committee assumes for its part the dimension of “beauty contest” of the election, while putting forward other criteria such as the personality of the candidates. The election of Angélique Angarni-Filopon, a thirty-something committed and fulfilled in her career as a flight attendant, is part of this desire for openness and modernity. There is no doubt that her year of reign will allow the image of Miss France to continue to evolve.