And the new Miss Normandie 2024 is…

Lucile Lecellier was crowned Miss Normandie 2024, at the end of the state pageant, held on June 29, 2024 in Alençon, France. The native of Sainte-Cecile beat 11 other candidates to succeed Wissem Morel, Miss Normandie 2023 and become the representative of Normady at the next edition of Miss France, to be held in December 2024.

During a live broadcast on Instagram on April 20 in which she answered questions from Internet users, the 26-year-old young woman described herself in particular as “the simple girl“, “from the countryside“, who “likes to party with his friends”.

As a student, she is currently completing a course to become an educator specializing in child protection in Caen. “I knew I wanted to work in this field because I had professional experience before starting training, in a home that took in foster children. It wasn’t easy every day, it’s not a daily life where we smile 24/7 but, nonetheless, I shared the lives of these children for more than a year and I learned a lot from them,” she explains.

She said she subsequently “wondered how, on my scale, I could sow small seeds for their future to be better and for them to flourish.“

“I live my life as a Miss and a student in parallel: sometimes immersed in writing my dissertation, sometimes climbing on my 12 cm stilts for a Miss event: and I love this double life,” she explained in a post on Instagram on June 10.

First runner-up in 2021

Lucile Lecellier is also not a newbie in pageantry, since she had already participated in the Miss Normandy pageant in 2021 and even finished first runner-up. “There, I was really very proud and I realized that finally, I could go far,” she explains.

“Following this experience, I had reached the age limit because at the time there were still age criteria, I was 24 years old so I could no longer represent myself. (…) But the following year, the age criteria were changed and suddenly, I said to myself, ‘why not try the experience again this year’“, she also says.

Saying she is “ready to repeat this crazy experience”, the young woman also claims to be “ready to take on this role, from Miss Normandy to Miss France”.