Miss France ‘embodies diversity’

THE new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said yesterday she wants to advertise her country’s diversity on the world stage.

Chloe Mortaud is not the first coloured winner of the beauty pageant, but she is joining a growing chorus of French public figures speaking openly about race.

“I want to go to people and explain to them that fear of the other is unfounded,” she said the day after being crowned. “I want to incarnate... today’s French diversity”.