Miss Marone 2023

**Miss Marone 2023** was the 91st edition of the Miss Marone pageant. The competition was held on 17 December 2022 at Le Centre de Chassonne in Chassonne, Languedoie. Jean-Pierre Fredriksen and Élisabeth Desjardin presented the show.

Georgina Kiss of Languedoie crowned Gwendoline Bunc of Carandie as her successor at the end of the event. Bunc will go on to represent Marone at Miss Parth 2024.

## Background

In June 2022, the Miss Marone Committee confirmed that the competition would be held on 17 December 2022 at Le Centre de Chassonne in Chassonne, to honor the home region of incumbent titleholder Georgina Kiss of Languedoie. They additionally confirmed that this year's overseas trip would be to Caru.

Regional pageants were held to select the 30 contestants between June and October 2022. The 30 contestants traveled to Delmas to begin pre-pageant activities on 25 November 2022, before embarking on their overseas trip to Caru on 28 November. While in Caru, the delegates participated in a variety of photoshoots and events, while they additionally sat for the general knowledge exam, a 40-question exam that tests the delegates on various topics such as current events, politics, history, pop culture, and Maronan language and literature. They arrived in Chasssonne on 7 December in order to begin rehearsals for the final.

## Results

 **Top 12** |  **Terre Chasque** – Ega Bangè *(5th Runner-Up)* **Île-de-Marone** – Emmanuelle Madeira Gomes *(6th Runner-Up)* **Moutarde** – Juliette Barthet **New Malonia** – Léonie Teva **Pitaine** – Cassandra Dane **Tartinique** – Mélisandre Matin **Wahiti** – Vavea Arilimanihinihi

### Special awards

 **Miss Photogenic** |  **Nord** – Thaïs Verplancke

### Scoring

#### Preliminaries

A jury composed of partners (internal and external) of the Miss Marone Committee selected twelve delegates during an interview that took place on 14 December to advance to the semifinals.

#### Top 12

In the Top 12, a 50/50 split vote between the official jury and voting public selected five delegates to advance to the Top 5. Each delegate was awarded an overall score of 1 to 12 from the jury and public, and the five delegates with the highest combined scores advanced to the top five.

The delegates with the sixth and seventh highest combined scores were afterwards designated as the fifth and sixth runners-up, respectively, despite not advancing in the competition. In the case of a tie, the jury vote prevailed.

#### Top 5

In the Top 5, public voting determined which contestant was declared Miss Marone.

 Ditrone | 6.73%

### Call-out order

2. Terre Chasque
3. Île-de-Marone
4. Wahiti
5. Carandie
6. Fuadeloupe
7. Tahare
8. Pitaine
9. Tartinique
10. Ambas
11. Moutarde
12. New Malonia
2. Carandie
3. Tahare
4. Ambas
5. Ditrone

## Pageant

### Format

On 24 November 2022, it was announced by the Miss Marone Committee that the theme for this edition of the competition would be "The Misses Sing You a Song" (Maronan: *Les Miss vous chantent une chanson*), with competition rounds themed after music.

The competition opened with a round based on world music, featuring the 30 contestants in their regional costumes. The 30 contestants were then separated into three groups of ten contestants each, with each group taking part in an initial presentation round. The three presentation rounds were themed after classical music, electronic music, and hard rock, respectively. Afterwards, the 30 contestants participated in the one-piece swimsuit round, inspired by 1980s pop music.

After the conclusion of the one-piece swimsuit round, the Top 12 was announced, and each gave their introductory speeches while wearing their ball gowns. This was followed by the two-piece swimsuit round, inspired by Christmas music. After the conclusion of the two-piece swimsuit round, the Top 5 was announced. Afterwards, the Top 5 presented their evening gowns in a round inspired by Ève Bernet, followed by the question and answer round. The Top 5 later participated in a final presentation round themed after folk music, before the final results were announced.

#### Order of the *tableaux*

 Classical music
 Two-piece swimsuit – Christmas music
 Folk fashion

### Judges

The judges were revealed on 8 December 2022.

* Amandine Gounelle (President of the Jury) – tennis player
* Victoria Boudon – television presenter and model
* Damien Cazal – actor
* Nathan da Souza – footballer
* Blanche Laurent – singer and songwriter
* Bella Mignard – Miss Marone 2013 from Moutarde
* Ada Sanou – actress and comedian
* Isaac Touchard-Malet – comedian

## Contestants

### Notes

* The average age is 20.7 years, while the average height is 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in).
* Gisèle Rindelknecht, Miss Ambas, is of Lungarian origin through her father.
* Tasa Farah, Miss Charlotte, is of Agazingh-Barracan origin.
* Noémie Héjou, Miss Fuadeloupe, is of Tiro-Barrabean origin.
* Céleste Margarit, Miss Hautes-Robinelles, is the daughter of Isadore Rosel, Miss Barn 1987.
* Emmanuelle Madeira Gomes, Miss Île-de-Marone, is of Escarian origin.
* Lisa Berthold, Miss Lauterne, is of Lungarian origin through her father.
* Léonie Teva, Miss New Malonia, is of Wahitian and Noorean origin.
* Marielle Bertillon, Miss Pays-du-Verne, is of Taharian origin through her father and Regian origin through her mother.
* Jeanne-Laure Houdin, Miss Pays-Libre, is the grand-niece of Gaëtane Houdin, Miss Marone 1950.
* Asia Ziani, Miss Picarie, is of Rubenian origin.
* Cassandra Dane, Miss Pitaine, is of Spanian origin through her mother.
* Valentine Ramos, Miss Sainte-Edwige, is of Elbanuelan origin through her father.
* Ega Bangè, Miss Terre Chasque, is of Talmoonian origin through her father.
* Raphaëlle François, Miss Val-du-Verne, is of Fuadeloupean origin through her father.