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Valentine
Every December, the Miss France election is a ritual in her family. In 2024, she was the one on stage.
Text The info-shooting editorial team
Photos Photos supplied by Valentine Jacques · Chocographe
Based on articles published by info-lux.com in 2024 and 2025
In December 2024, Valentine Jacques is 28 and enters the Miss Moselle 2025 pageant. Miss France, broadcast every year on TF1, is a ritual in her family.
She already knows the stage: she took part in beauty pageants in 2016. Older and more confident, she wants to take on this new challenge and make the most of the adventure.
Back from Canada
After two years in Canada, Valentine changed careers: she became a graphic designer and has worked in the field since graduating in October 2024.
Travel changed her relationship with possessions. Setting off with a single suitcase, she realised she didn’t need an overflowing wardrobe. Day to day, her style is fairly classic; for going out, she picks more playful outfits.
Hoste, land of ponds
She lives in Hoste, the village of her childhood memories, flanked by two ponds. She mentions the café-grocery Le Hoschta, which champions local produce, and the Maison Guth, a flower-decked 17th-century building.
From Canada, nature means a lot to her: her “land of ponds”, the Barrois quarry, the Rhodes wildlife park. She also knows Lorraine beyond Moselle: she studied in Lunéville, worked as a guide on the Verdun battlefield and regularly explores the Vosges.
A voice for animals
Taking part in this kind of contest is a rewarding experience. Becoming Miss lets you make your voice heard and stand up for causes close to my heart. If I can help fight animal cruelty and abandonment, that would be a great victory.
Valentine Jacques, December 2024
She also runs a YouTube channel with advice for owners, before and after adopting small-breed dogs.
Another cause is close to her heart, within her own family: helping sick children. She would like to meet specialist doctors and raise public awareness of a rare disease.
The adrenaline of the stage
For Valentine, a woman’s beauty lies in the depth of her soul and the values she embodies. A Miss, in her view, should have sincerity, altruism, kindness, empathy, modesty and a sense of respect.
A pageant can be stressful; she sees it as a chance to push herself. The adrenaline she feels before going on stage makes her want to live the experience again and again: that's when she feels alive. Her dream, if she wins: to go all the way to Miss Lorraine 2025 and walk the runway for a major couturier.
On 21 December 2024, at the B’est shopping centre in Farébersviller, she wears number 8 among eleven contestants. Nina Damblant is crowned Miss Moselle 2025.
Valentine in the media
Features on info-lux.com, from oldest to most recent.
· info-lux.com
Hoste > Miss > Valentine Jacques
Her portrait as contestant no. 8 for Miss Moselle 2025, by Teddy Clausse.
· info-lux.com
Farébersviller > Miss Moselle 2025 pageant
Report on the 21 December 2024 pageant and an introduction to the eleven contestants.
Valentine’s gallery
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2024 · Photos
2024 · Miss Moselle 2025 pageant
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On info-lux.com (in French): Hoste > Miss > Valentine Jacques (December 2024) and the story of the election in the timeline above.
Sources: portrait published by info-lux.com on 3 December 2024 (text by Teddy Clausse); info-lux.com report on the Miss Moselle 2025 pageant. Each photo is credited in its caption.
