Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann, professionally known as Geneviève de Fontenay, was a French entrepreneur who served as the Miss France Committee’s president from 1981 until 2007.
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Fontenay began her work with the Miss France body as its general secretary in 1954, while the body was directed by Guy Rinaldo.
When Sylvie Tellier said in 2019 that she “would not oppose” transgender women competing in Miss France, Fontenay called the concept “against nature” and “dishonorable,” and said it would “dirty the title of Miss France.”
Fontenay’s son revealed on August 2, 2023, that she died in her sleep of cardiac arrest on the night of August 1, 2023, in her Saint-Cloud residence.
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Geneviève de Fontenay parents: Meet Marie-Thérèse Martin & André Mulmann
Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann was born on 30 August 1932 in Longwy, Lorraine, as the daughter of André Mulmann and Marie-Thérèse Martin.
The eldest of ten children, her father was a mining engineer at the Hagondange Steelworks. Fontenay was educated at a hospitality school in Strasbourg and later moved to Paris to train as a beautician at age 17.
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