The death of Geneviève de Fontenay was announced on Wednesday August 2, 2023. A look back at the life of the former popess of the election miss France.
The marital status of the “mother” of the Misses is Genevieve Suzanne Marie-Therese Mulmann. She derives this particle from her deceased ex-husband, Louis Poirot. Indeed, Poirot de Fontenay was his pseudonym of resistant during the occupation. Although this name no longer appears on the birth certificates of the family, Geneviève de Fontenay had succeeded in obtaining in 2006 from the Keeper of the Seals the authorization to keep this surname and to be able to sign “Poirot de Fontenay”.
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