IN A NUTSHELL: HOW THE POIROT-MULMANN DUO TOOK OVER THE MISS FRANCE COMMITTEE The Committee of Miss France-Miss Europe-Miss Universe was created on October 15, 1954 by Guy LEVY (also known as RINALDO). The committee was declared official on October 15, 1954 at the Prefecture of Seine et Oise. On November 14, 1954, Journal Officiel published, on page 10731, the committee's Constitution of Administrative Council that reveals the four original members: Guy LEVY (a/k/a RINALDO) - the President and Founder; Geneviève MULMANN - Secretary-General; Claudine AKRICH - Secretary-Treasurer (LEVY's sister); and Henri MANDAGARAN - Historian (friend of LEVY). It is interesting to note that Louis POIROT de FONTENAY's name is nowhere on the list. On September 25, 1956, a fake deposition of the Administrative Council is issued at the Prefecture of Versailles by Geneviève Mulmann; a second certified version followed on December 16, 1958. In this fake deposition, one notices the disappearance of the names of Guy RINALDO (the President and Founder) and of his sister, Claudine AKRICH (Secretary-Treasurer). Their names have been replaced by that of a fictitious person, Meurice GILKIN de WALEFFE who becomes the president, and by a certain Laure HAZOUME who becomes Secretary-Treasurer. The Committee's Administrative Council never convened to make such changes and no notice had ever been sent to any of the four founding members. The question is, "How can one out of four members exclude two members (the President and the Treasurer) when Article 18 of the Statutes of Comité Miss France (CMF) states that: "Every decision must be made by the majority of the members of the Administrative Council." It is obvious that this document was fabricated and then submitted by Geneviève Mulmann to the Prefecture of Versailles. Moreover, this modification was never published in the Journal Officiel. According to the law of 1901, it is mandatory that any changes regarding presidency be documented in the Journal Officiel. President Rinaldo, Secretary-Treasurer Claudine Akrich and Henri Mandagaran did not have knowledge of this "assembly" or of the so-called change of the Administrative Council, until in 1969 when an outsider checked the Committee files at the Prefecture and discovered the false deposition. A trial followed and the court recognized the illegal changes made in the Administrative Council. The same jury confirmed that Guy Rinaldo was the real president of CMF. It turned out after investigation that this Meurice Gilkin de Waleffe never existed; imagine - a fictitious person would be the president of CMF for over ten years! Consequently, handwriting experts proved that the signature showing on the false deposition was none other than that of Louis Poirot! Before Judge Parant of Nanterre, Geneviève Mulmann admitted that the signature "Meurice Gilkin de Waleffe" that appears on the pseudo-decision of the Administrative Council of September 25th, 1956 was fabricated by Louis Poirot (this fact was recorded in the transcript of a hearing dated May 16, 1988). Following the judgment of a court in Versailles, the President-Founder Guy Rinaldo, recognized in his duties, convoked the original Administrative Council that eventually expelled Mulmann and moved the headquarters from Saint Cloud to Paris ( this event was published in the Journal Officiel of August 19, 1976). However, forty-six days after her expulsion (November 10, 1976), Mulmann, who lost the right to act in the name of the committee from which she was legally expelled, added - in the organization's files which had not yet been physically transferred to the Paris prefecture - a false statement (supposedly by the Administrative Council) concerning a "change" in the title of the organization that became: Comité Miss France - Miss Europe - Miss Univers - Miss Monde - Miss International, President Louis Poirot de Fontenay. The declaration of this false statement was published in the Journal Officiel on December 3, 1976 on page 6976. From then on, Mulmann would not make any attempt to get back into the organization; she could neither speak for CMF nor act in the name of it. The CMF files that had been stored in the Paris Police Headquarters since 1976 would be transferred illegally to the Sous-Prefecture at Boulogne-Billancourt at the request of an individual who was not involved with CMF. The first attempt of an illegal transfer in 1988 failed, but a second one succeeded two years later. It is important to note that the transfer of the Committee's headquarters could not have taken place without a unanimous vote by the members of the Administrative Council. Furthermore, no record of such transfer was ever published in the Journal Officiel. And because of this incident, Rinaldo and his associates demanded two things: first, an explanation for the illegal transfer of the CMF files, and second, the prompt return of these files to the Paris Police Headquarters from where they should have never been removed. La Vérité tirée du chapeau, pp 7-9.

MULMANN'S REIGN OF FRAUD CONTINUES

Following Guy Rinaldo's death in 1992, Antoine de Villejoie was chosen by his colleagues as the new president of CMF. His presidency was officially recognized on May 11, 1993 by the Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence. On June 20, 1995, a court reconfirmed De Villejoie's presidency and discredited Mulmann's "Comité Miss France," stating that her committee lacked the same moral traits that the original committee - the one that Rinaldo founded on October 21, 1954 - had. Mulmann, now even more bitter than ever, continued to express her hatred towards the real CMF. She launched her own "Société Miss France" with her son Xavier Poirot and adopted the title "Miss France" as a commercial brand - which is illegal because it infringes on the copyright of CMF that has owned the title since 1954. This infraction proved once again Mulmann's desperate attempt to make the world believe that she is the real president of CMF and that CMF was created by her husband Louis de Fontenay.

XAVIER'S FURY

If the father was a crook, and the mother is a liar, then the son must have a short fuse. Xavier Poirot has gained the reputation for being a short-tempered and violent man. One time, during an outburst of anger, he hit his mother on the head with a lamp (was she not wearing a hat?). The neighbors had to call the police and Mulmann had to be consoled by her friend Geneviève Leblanc. In January 1988, Xavier attacked T.V. personality Jean-Claude Bourret after the latter featured a show about the Miss France controversy. Bourret, who happens to practice martial arts, knocked Poirot out in a second. Bourret exclaimed, "This young man was badly brought up and his behavior needs a spanking, so I gave him one right after he hit me."

One of Poirot's most publicized manifestation of fury occurred twenty years ago when a former Miss France, Isabelle Turpault (1983), accused Poirot of punching her in the face in broad daylight as she was shopping at Champs-Elysées. Poirot later admitted to the crime; he reasoned that he had to defend his mother whose reputation was being damaged by Turpault who had posed in transparent attire for a magazine. Mulmann fired Turpault and defended her son by stating that he was a "gentle and nice boy" who would never hurt anyone (France Soir) and that "he was at his grandparents' house in Lorraine" during the incident (Le Parisien).

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