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Miss Côte d'Azur

beauty contest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3316404 ↗
Source-derived summary

Miss Côte d'Azur is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the department of Alpes-Maritimes and portions of Var in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA). The other regional pageant within PACA is Miss Provence, which selects a representative from the other departments of PACA and the remaining portions of Var. The first Miss Côte d'Azur was crowned in 1932, although the competition was not organized regularly until 1962.

The current Miss Côte d'Azur is May Haoues, who was crowned Miss Côte d'Azur 2026 on 26 July 2026.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1962, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Miss, Côte and d'Azur can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as beauty contest. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miss Côte d'Azur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.