Raymonde Allain (22 June 1912 – 27 July 2008) was a French
model and
actress.[1] She was
Miss France in 1928.[2] Her participation in the
Miss Universe contest drew international media attention,[3] and her controversial loss to American
Ella Van Hueson [
fr] prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty".[4] Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté.
^Grout, Holly (May 13, 2015). The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic. Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN9780807159903.
^"Paris Quarrels over Milady Beautiful". Washington Post. July 8, 1928.