2023-08-09 03:20:48
Geneviève de Fontenay, historical figure of the Miss France contest, was buried Tuesday afternoon in the intimacy of the family at the Parisian cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), we learned in her entourage .
Died on July 31 at the end of the evening of a cardiac arrest, at the age of 90, Geneviève de Fontenay joined in the family vault her companion Louis Poirot, known as de Fontenay, and their eldest son Ludovic, who died in the 1980s.
On several occasions in interviews, Geneviève de Fontenay had wanted her funeral to take place without a religious ceremony and in the strictest family privacy.
“The Ball of the Hypocrites”
She did not want “a Johnny Hallyday-style funeral. She wanted to go alone,” said her former assistant, Hubert Guérin, adding that there would only be “her son, her granddaughters and her brothers and sisters,” and no Misses. She “didn’t want a ceremony. She said it would be the ball of the hypocrites, ”he assured.
Known for her outspokenness and her character, Geneviève de Fontenay was on very bad terms with Sylvie Tellier, ex-miss France who succeeded her at the head of the competition.
Asked about her resumption of the competition one day, she had assured in 2020 in our columns: “Never in my life will I go back there. It no longer has a soul. Not all candidates have the same chances. The real folk costumes have disappeared”.
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