Miss Normandie, Malika Menard, crowned Miss France 2010
In France, where beauty pageants still command big television audiences and capture the public’s imagination, Malika Menard, Miss Normandie, has been crowned Miss France 2010 in Nice tonight.
Menard, 22, is a third-year law student, and is 5 ft 9 in (176 cm) tall. She cites her interests as cinema, travel and reading.
Miss Rhône Alpes, Virginie Dechenaud, 23, studying her master’s degree in marketing, was runner-up.
The competition includes contestants from overseas French territories, making it international. Thirty-seven contestants vied for the crown.


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I´m very proud to be relative to this beauty, even thoug we don´t know each other, since my ancesters came to Guatemala in the last century.
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