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Type | Beauty pageant |
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Headquarters | Brittany, France |
Membership | Miss France |
Official language | French |
Regional director | Emilie Menard |
Website | www |
Miss Brittany (French : Miss Bretagne) is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the region of Brittany. Women representing the region under various different titles have competed at Miss France since 1920, although the Miss Brittany title was not used regularly until 1981. Until 2010, women from the department of Loire-Atlantique were eligible to compete in Miss Brittany, due to the department's historical ties to the region, despite currently being located within the region of Pays de la Loire.
The current Miss Brittany is Noémie Le Bras, who was crowned Miss Brittany 2023 on 29 September 2023. Six women from Brittany have gone on to win Miss France.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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2023 | Noémie Le Bras [1] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Le Cloître-Pleyben | ||
2022 | Enora Moal [2] | 21 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Guipavas | ||
2021 | Sarah Conan [3] | 22 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Lézardrieux | ||
2020 | Julie Foricher [4] | 23 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Le Relecq-Kerhuon | ||
2019 | Romane Edern [5] | 24 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Cléder | ||
2018 | Emilie Bachellereau [6] | 22 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Larmor-Plage | ||
2017 | Caroline Lemée [7] | 24 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Rennes | ||
2016 | Maurane Bouazza [8] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Plumelin | Top 12 (6th Runner-Up) | |
2015 | Eugénie Journée [9] | 23 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Rennes | Did not compete | Journée was dethroned three days after winning the title, after it emerged that she had previously posed topless for a photoshoot. She was replaced by Bizeul, her first runner-up. [10] |
Léa Bizeul [11] | 18 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Saint-Malo | Top 12 | ||
2014 | Maïlys Bonnet [12] | 20 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Vannes | ||
2013 | Marie Chartier [13] | 19 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Étables-sur-Mer | ||
2012 | Estelle Sabathier | 21 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Brest | Top 12 | |
2011 | Audrey Bonecker | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Muzillac | Top 12 | Bonecker is the daughter of Isabelle Carayol, Miss Brittany 1974. |
2010 | Laury Thilleman | 19 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Brest | Miss France 2011 | Top 10 at Miss Universe 2011 |
2009 | Mélanie Craignou | 19 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Louannec | 2nd Runner-Up | |
2008 | Bianca Taillard | 23 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Machecoul | 4th Runner-Up | |
2007 | Églantine Morin | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Savenay | ||
2006 | Charline Leray | 19 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Lusanger | ||
2005 | Cindy Trichereau Duchesne | 24 | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Nantes | ||
2004 | Amélie Turmel | 19 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Lillemer | ||
2003 | Nathalie Economides | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Guidel | Top 12 | |
2002 | Anne-Sophie Pageau | Vigneux-de-Bretagne | ||||
2001 | Céline Autricque | 20 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Nantes | ||
2000 | Mélanie Guyomard | 19 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Brest | ||
1999 | Florence Guillou | 19 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Saint-Brieuc | Top 12 | |
1998 | Virginie Radier | 19 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Ploulec'h | ||
1997 | Nathalie Busson | Châtelaudren | ||||
1996 | Séverine André | Trégastel | Sister of Miss Brittany 1994 Delphine André. | |||
1995 | Violaine Turpin | Trévé | ||||
1994 | Delphine André | 19 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Trégastel | Top 12 | Sister of Miss Brittany 1996 Séverine André. |
1993 | Alexia Dereux-Marchand | |||||
1992 | Stéphanie Ducos | |||||
1991 | Patricia Mouazec | 18 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | |||
1990 | Anne-Marie Poggi | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Saint-Briac-sur-Mer | 2nd Runner-Up | |
1989 | Stéphanie Lemarchand | |||||
1988 | Lydie Guilment | 21 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | |||
1987 | Graziella Pequin | Nantes | 3rd Runner-Up | |||
1986 | Catherine Hérault | |||||
1985 | Valérie Le Vaillant | |||||
1984 | Manuella Pequin | Nantes | ||||
1983 | Christelle Mayet | 1st Runner-Up | ||||
1982 | Valérie Guenveur | 18 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Saint-Brieuc | 1st Runner-Up | Competed at Miss International 1983 |
1981 | Véronique Morice | |||||
1979 | Véronique Guin | |||||
1978 | Marie-Laure Uzel | Lorient | 3rd Runner-Up | |||
1976 | Christine Robin | |||||
1974 | Isabelle Carayol | Carayol is the mother of Audrey Bonecker, Miss Bretagne 2011. | ||||
1972 | Louise Le Calvez | 22 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | |||
1971 | Denise Kerfast | 5th Runner-Up | ||||
1970 | Annie Cadiou | 5th Runner-Up | ||||
1969 | Catherine Ledu | |||||
1968 | Rolande Cozien | Brest | 1st Runner-Up | |||
1965 | Madeleine Calvez | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||
1964 | Chantal Le Coz | |||||
1960 | Michèle Wargnier | 24 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Miss France 1961 | 2nd Runner-Up at Miss World 1961 | |
1955 | Anita Treyens | 1st Runner-Up | Top 15 at Miss Universe 1956 | |||
1952 | Paulette Le Bourkin | |||||
From 1977 to 1979, the inland area of Brittany, known as Argoat, competed separately.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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1979 | Anne Le Maux | |||||
1978 | Anne-Yvonne Le Roux | |||||
1977 | Yasmine Arnal | |||||
Prior to the 1960s, the departments of Côtes d'Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine competed separately under the title Miss Côte d'Émeraude.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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1967 | Martine Henry | |||||
1962 | Françoise Minec | |||||
1961 | Monique Lemaire | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Côtes d'Armor | Miss France 1962 | |
1959 | Brigitte Barazer de Lannurien | 22 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Miss France 1960 | ||
1957 | Monique Boulinguez | 1st Runner-Up | Competed at Miss Universe 1958 | |||
1936 | Jacqueline Janet | 16 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Miss France 1937 | ||
1927 | Raymonde Allain | 16 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Miss France 1928 | ||
1920 | Denise Le Brase | 17 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | 1st Runner-Up | ||
In the 1970s, the department of Côtes d'Armor competed separately under the title Miss Côte de Granit.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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1979 | Catherine Parera | |||||
1977 | Corinne Le Goff | |||||
1976 | Catherine Matonnier | |||||
In 1967, the department of Finistère crowned its own representative for Miss France.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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1967 | Marie Martine Legrand | |||||
In 1964, the department of Morbihan crowned its own representative for Miss France. In 1979, the department competed under the title Miss Lorient.
Year | Name | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Height | Hometown | Miss France placement | Notes |
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1979 | Claudine Gosselin | |||||
1964 | Annie Delabre | |||||
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