While the holding of the Miss France 2021 contest is suspended from government announcements, Sylvie Tellier publishes "Miss France 1920 - 2020".

Guest of Anne Roumanoff, she explains the major difference between Miss France and the mini-miss contests, a difference which means that she will never direct one. 

INTERVIEW

"Miss France for children".

The formula is easy to define what are the mini-miss contests, very popular in the United States and which also exist in France.

But for Sylvie Tellier, the two competitions differ on a crucial point, as she explains at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.

The general manager of the company Miss France and of the Miss Europe Organization is the guest of 

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for the release of her book 

Miss France 1920 - 2020

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"I couldn't do it"

Sylvie Tellier is not asking that mini-miss contests be banned.

"There is room for these contests. I don't judge or criticize mini-miss contests," she explains.

"But I, as a mom and as a woman, couldn't run that kind of competition."

The general manager of the company Miss France is also struggling to project herself as a participant's mother.

"I am the mother of a little girl who is 6 years old and who is a fan of Frozen and Miss France", she explains.

"I couldn't say at 6 am 'Come on, I'll put on some heated hair rollers and we're gone!'."

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The violence of competition

According to Sylvie Tellier, the question of the age of the participants is crucial.

"The Miss France contest is aimed at young women between 18 and 25 years old because we want them to be adults," she recalls.

"We were talking earlier about feminism, so about freedom of choice. I don't know if this is still the case."

It also recalls the harshness of competition, especially when it is based on physical criteria.

"I don't think a little girl has this perspective to know if she's ready to pass judgment," she worries.

"Miss France is a beauty contest. We will judge you on intellectual criteria, but above all on physical criteria. It's very violent. And I can tell you that even at 18, we have trouble coping. to all those criticisms. "

Violence increases tenfold when it is received by children of 6 or 10 years old.