Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann, known professionally as Geneviève de Fontenay, was a French businesswoman who served as the president of the Miss France Committee from 1981 until 2007.
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Fontenay began her career with the Miss France Committee in 1954, after being hired as its general secretary while the committee was chaired by Guy Rinaldo.
In 2019, when Sylvie Tellier stated that she “would not oppose” transgender women taking part in Miss France, Fontenay referred to the idea as “against nature” and “dishonorable,” and that it would “dirty the title of Miss France.”
On 2 August 2023, Fontenay’s son announced that she had died in her sleep of cardiac arrest on the night of 1 August, at her Saint-Cloud home.
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Geneviève de Fontenay husband: Who is Louis Poirot?
Fontenay met Louis Poirot in 1954, who became Fontenay’s long-term partner. Despite claiming to be a former French Resistance fighter and journalist, Poirot was a fraudster who had been convicted of fraud and forgery.
After beginning their relationship, Poirot began to use the name Louis Poirot de Fontenay professionally, with Fontenay also adopting the de Fontenay surname.
The family resided in Saint-Cloud and had two sons together: Ludovic (1954–1984) and Xavier (born 1961). Poirot died in 1981.
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