Word: chantal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More seductive to the judges, though, was Marie Chantal la Charmante, 17, who paraded across the stage in a black dress and a rakishly cocked, daffodil-yellow boater while a 22-man band, consisting largely of electric guitars and tom-toms, shrilled maniacally. La Charmante won handily, thus enhancing a future few American beauty queens could or would hope to have. For she, like the rest of the contestants, is a femme libre (literally "free woman") -one of a select crowd of Congolese hostesses who play a key role in official life as semi-wives...