The new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said Sunday she wants to advertise her country's diversity on the world stage.
Chloe Mortaud, 19, and standing 1.80 m tall, is not the first nonwhite winner of the beauty pageant, but she is joining a growing chorus of French public figures breaking traditions by speaking openly about race.
"I want to go to people and explain to them that fear of the other is unfounded," she told The Associated Press the day after being crowned. "I want to incarnate ... today's French diversity" at international beauty pageants.
Mortaud, a dual French-American citizen, said her mother was born in Mississippi but grew up in California, and her father's heritage is ethnic French "as far back as we could trace the family tree."
Mortaud said she and her brother were the only children of mixed ethnic background in the small town where they grew up in the French Pyrenees, where she said "everyone knows each other and respects each other."
Mortaud, 19, is a student in international business in the southern city of Toulouse, and speaks Chinese. She will represent France at the Miss World and Miss Universe 2009 contests.
Chloe's 1st runner-up is Favorites from Lorraine,Camille Cheyere(represent France in Miss International 2009),2nd runner-up is Elodie Martineau from Pays de Loyre.
4.place poll Mayotte's Esthel Nee and 5,place poll bianca Tailard from Bretagne.
TOP 12:
Rhone-Alpes, Poitou-Charentes, Normandie, Guadeloupe, Limousin, Berry val de Loire a Reunion
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