Jeanne Marie Justine Juilla (21 August 1910 – 4 September 1996) was a French model and actress, who became the seventh

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and the first Frenchwoman to earn the

Miss Europe Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for European women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by Friedrich ...

title.

Life

Juilla was born on 21 August 1910 in

Villeneuve-sur-Lot Villeneuve-sur-Lot (; in the Languedocien dialect of Occitan language: ''Vilanuèva d'Òlt'' ) is a town and commune in the southwestern French department of Lot-et-Garonne. The commune was formerly named ''Villeneuve-d'Agen''. Villeneuve-sur-L ...

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to Louis Jean Juilla and Marie Zoé Lautard, who was a seamstress. Her widowed mother raised Juilla alone. In May 1930, she was elected as Miss Gascony, the title that qualified her for the selection of Miss France 1931. She won Miss France 1931 title, making herself the seventh to do so. The beauty contest was organized by the Parisian Committee created by a Belgian born French journalist, Maurice de Waleffe in 1920, and was juried from among 150 candidates gathered in the village hall of the ''

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'' in

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. On 5 February 1931, at the age of 20, Jeanne Juilla became the first Frenchwomen to be elected as

. The contest was held in the same Persian premises as for the contest of Miss France 1931. Juilla was selected as Miss Europe among the participants of 16 different European countries. The jury of the selection was chaired by French painter

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. Jeanne Juilla died on 4 September 1996, aged 86, in Saint-Aubin-les-Elbeuf,

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Filmography

As Jeanne Juilla

* 1932 - '' Sa meilleure cliente by

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* 1936 - ''

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'' by Maurice Tourneur (with Simone Barillier, Miss France 1934)

As Janot Jullia

* 1933 - '' Miss Helyett'' by

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and Hubert Bourlon

As Jane Jullian

* 1934 - '' La Prison de Saint-Clothaire'' by Pierre-Jean Ducis * 1934 - '' Une femme chipée'' by

Photos

File:Jeanne Juilla 1931.jpg File:Jeanne Juilla nude photo.jpg

References

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