The new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said Sunday she wants to advertise her country’s diversity on the world stage.
Chloe Mortaud is not the first nonwhite winner of the beauty pageant, but she is joining a growing chorus of French public figures breaking traditions by speaking openly about race.
‘I want to go to people and explain to them that fear of the other is unfounded,’ she told The Associated Press the day after being crowned. ‘I want to incarnate … today’s French diversity’ at international beauty pageants.
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