“Good in pairs girls. It’s good, nickel. » Cécile, the chaperone, gives her first instruction. These are not schoolgirls but the thirty regional misses who will compete in the election of Miss France 2025, on December 14 at Futuroscope in Poitiers, live on TF 1. It is 1 p.m. and their bus has just left. park, under the front page cameras, for the Monday midday news.
Thirty identical cabin suitcases are already waiting for them. They grab it one by one in a well-choreographed ballet as they get off the bus, in front of an airport security officer as proud as a rugby player during the anthems: “We love these events. The last one like that was the Olympic Games,” he smiles.