Claudinette fouchard biography examples

The success of Haiti’s first beauty queen, Claudinette Fouchard, set into motion a series of investments in pageants to promote tourism on the island nation plagued with bad press and instability.

Since then, Haitian beauty queens have made the colors of Haiti shine on the biggest and brightest of international stages.

Fouchard, the daughter of Jean Fouchard (then Haiti’s ambassador to Cuba) was elected Miss Haiti in 1960i.

She had the heavy responsibility of representing Haiti at the Miss World Sugar in Colombia, a competition she won.

But she missed the 10th edition of Miss World in London because of conflict of dates between the two pageants. Fouchard became a darling to the Haitian people and was featured prominently on international magazine covers.

Two years later, Evelyn Miot, only 19 years old, succeeded Fouchard as the new Miss Haiti.

Her participation in the Big Slam (Miss World, MissUniverse, Miss International and Miss Earth) was a first for a Haitian beauty