Rachel Legrain-Trapani (born on August 31, 1988, Saint-Saulve

Saint-Saulve

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, Nord) was elected Miss France

Miss France

Miss France is the trademark of an annual beauty pageant. Rights to the trademark were obtained in 2002 by the Dutch television production company Endemol through its subsidiary Miss France SAS, whose director general is Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002. Endemol also holds the rights in France to...

 in 2007.http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/people/20061210.OBS2254/rachel-legrain-trapani-elue-miss-france-2007.html Living in Saint-Quentin, she was elected Miss Aisne, and chosen to represent the region of Picardie

Picardie

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. She succeeded Alexandra Rosenfeld

Alexandra Rosenfeld

Alexandra Rosenfeld was elected Miss France in 2006. Representing the region of Languedoc, she succeeded Cindy Fabre as the 52nd Miss France on 3 December 2005....

 as the 53rd Miss France

Miss France

Miss France is the trademark of an annual beauty pageant. Rights to the trademark were obtained in 2002 by the Dutch television production company Endemol through its subsidiary Miss France SAS, whose director general is Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002. Endemol also holds the rights in France to...

 on December 9, 2006.

Originally Legrain-Trapani was going to allow her first runner-up Sophie Vouzelaud

Sophie Vouzelaud

Sophie Vouzelaud was elected first runner-up in the Miss France pageant of 2007. She represented the region of Limousin....

, the first deaf or hard of hearing finalist for Miss France, to compete at Miss World

Miss World

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 2007

Miss World 2007

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however the Miss World Organization refused to accept any contestant but the proper winner.