Another fairytale park... Mirapolis (1)
We have been talking about Disney a lot - and of course, with Disney comes Disneyland. I have made reblogs aboutt the Efteling park (and maybe more posts shall come in the future). But today, I want to invite you to an amusement park that doesn't exist anymore, and yet remains a part of France's history, and a part of the history of French folklore and fairytales. This is... the defunct amusement park Mirapolis.
Mirapolis was opened on the 20th of May 1987, in the city-group of Cergy-Pontoise (more specifically it belonged to the town of Courdimanches. It was a complicated situation as Cergy-Pontoise was one of the "new cities" built in the 60s/70s by sticking various existing small towns together as a way to deal with the population boom in the Ile-de-France region/Parisian area... Its the convoluted ways of French territory delimitation). It lasted for only five seasons, closing on the 20th of October 1991. The name of the park was explained as such by its creator, Anne Fourcade: "mira" is meant to evoke mirrors, the infinite, the eternal, while "polis" reminds of "the greatness of cities and of ancient kingdoms". It is thus meant to bring in people's minds ideas of adventure, of fabulous, and of future... Too bad the park didn't live up to its name and was a big failure.
The project of Mirapolis is tied to the arrival in Europe of Disney - more precisely, the appearance of the Euro Disney Resort (current "Disneyland Paris"). The Walt Disney Company was on our ground, the Americans against the Europeans, and Europe had to fight back. [Another complicated thing: Euro Disney Resort only offically opened in 1992, but the project existed and had been going on - though secretly - since 1976, and in december of 1985 it had been publically announced that France would be the country welcoming the first European Disney park.] Mirapolis was an attempt to create a counterpart to this American implantation: it was to be the greatest, largest and first French amusement park.
And large and great it was! Too great probably... Mirapolis was agreed to be an excessive project, truly bigger than life - a lot of resources were given to the project, and they didn't hesitate to consume every last drop of it and even more. The park was 55 hectars in terms of size - something unheard of in France until this point. Created by the collaboration of Anne Fourcade (architect and the creator of the park) and of Ghaith Pharaon (a wealthy businessman), the park's main problems were an ever-growing debt and a series of constantly changing owner and staff. The park was first owned by the Paris-Parc society - until the society went bankrupt. It then became the ownership of the Cergy-Parc society, and the original gestion and maintenance team was replaced by staff coming from the Club Med (the most famous French holiday-club/vacation-company ever), but THEN they were replaced by a group of carnies (carnies who funnily originally were against the project and had loudly expressed their opposition... but they still were hired and ran the park until it went bankrupt, and their presence made the park half-funfair). Because while the first year was a good year that met its mark (500 millions of francs invested, no loss), the second year started going flawly (700 millions of francs invested, 85 millions of loss), and then the third went bad (140 millions of loss) - and so on and so on until the park clearly wasn't profitable in any way anymore.
Now, why would this park be interesting for this blog? Because its themes was "French legends and French fairytales" - it was an amusement park entirely centered around French folklore! Again, since Mirapolis was about counter-attacking the "American invasion", it makes sense the park would be focused on glorifying the local heritage and culture, and proving that you could do a fully French park instead of having Disneyified verson of Perrault and Grimm's fairytales. A very admirable project... that unfortunately failed. Why? There's a big debate as to what was the exact cause (or causes, in plural) of this park's downfall - we'll get into this another time. But all in all, beyond being an amusement park trivia, and the background of current urbex explorations, the story of Mirapolis is one of the chapters of the massive wave and passion for amusement parks in France in the 80s-90s. Plus, the park still technically "lives on" as a lot of its attractions and elements are currently in use by other European amusement parks... But I'll get into the more historical details later.
For now let's focus on...
WHAT THE PARK LOOKED LIKE
The park was organized in eight zones, whose names were only fixed by the second year of the park's run. Each zone was a mix of rides and food-sources. When the park opened in 1987, there were only 20 attractions in total - but when the park closed, it had a fifty or so or them.
1 ) "La Grand'Place" (The Main Square/The Great Plaza)
This area was called "Le palais des merveilles", "The Palace of Wonders", during the park's first year. While it was renamed the "Grand'Place", the name "Palace of Wonders" was kept for the theater in the area - a building for theater plays, special-effects shows and other ballets that could welcome up to 800 people and have different shows playing simultaneously. In 1987, René-Louis Baron (a famous name of musical experiments in the 70s and 80s) created there a show based on La Fontaine's fables, called "Partir à point", with costumes by Yves Brunier. It was also within the Palace of Wonders theater that the first episodes of the "Juste Prix" (the French "The Price is Right") were recorded, between 1987 and 1988. In the second year, "Le Palais des Merveilles" became "Le Château des Visions" (The Castle of Visions), and became the first and only permanent 3D movie-theater of France - sponsored by Fujifilm, and decorated on the outside to look like a medieval castle.
Other buildings of the area included "Le théâtre de verdure" (The Greenery Theater), an open-air theater of 900 places ; and "La Navette aux milles sensations", a small-sized moving movie-theater that was carried across the area. Finally when the carnies arrived in 1989, they prepared a karting course there. The Grand'Place area was also where "La Grande Parade" (The Great Parade) was organized, a big parade with roughly 200 characters/costumes - among which many were the characters of La Fontaine's Fables.
2 ) Le jardin de la Belle Epoque (The garden of the Belle Epoque)
[For those of you not in the know, "La Belle Epoque", "The Beautiful Era", is the nickname of the era of French history located between the end of the 19th century and the First World War]
Located north-west of the park, The Garden of La Belle Epoque was originally called "Les Impressionnistes", in homage to the titular artistic movement/group. The three main attractions of the area were Le Ruisseau fleuri, les Tacots-Chapeaux and Le Manège de chevaux de bois. Le Ruisseau fleuri (The Flowery Stream) was a boat-travel in a canal surrounded by animated scenes based on impressionist paintings (it was renamed Rivière fleurie, Flowery river, in 1988). Le Manège de chevaux de bois (The wooden-horse carousel) was, as the title says, a carousel of fifty-four wooden horses - and it was renowned for being the first traditonal carousel created in France since 80 years... It was later moved to the "Land of Legends" when the carnies arrived. The third ride was the Tacots chapeaux (Hat-cars), little cars you could drive around which wore eyeglasses, mustaches and hats. There was also a fair-organ/band-organ playing music for the guests.
In 1988 new attractions were added - but clearly designed with a medieval theme, which clashed with the Belle Epoque one (for example there was "The Knights' Poney-Club", which was a medieval-theme poney-ride). Among the novelties there was a small maquette of the Port of Deauville, a faithful miniature reproduction in which children could drive around mechanical boats.
3 ) Le domaine du Moyen-Âge (The Middle-Ages domain/area)
North of the park, the Middle-Ages domain used to be called "Gargantua the giant", because its main attraction was the huge statue of Gargantua - it was a "scenic route in height". Basically you could climb inside the giant and look at the park from within him - this statue was considered to be part of the "duck architecture" (l'architecture canard) where buildings were made to look like objects or people (for example you could have a building looking like a giant picnic basket).
This area also contained a miniature train station where the park's train, the Mirapolis Express, went. In 1988 they created there "Le Chapiteau de l'épée magic" (The tent of the magic sword), where there was a laser show of medieval theme ; but it was moved to the Legend Land in 1989. Meanwhile, the same year, this medieval area was invested by most of the funfair and carnival-attractions and stands, brought by the carnies: there was a UFO ride (called... UFO) for 48 people ; La Pieuvre (an octopus-ride) ; La Chenille (a Music Express), a Buggy ride ; and "Godbille", a children carousel.
4 ) Le royaume de l'illusion (The Kingdom of Illusions)
Its original title was "The Castle of Spells" - because the titular castle was the main ride of the area. There was also a restaurant called "Les Sortilèges" (Spells, The Spells), and a building called "La tour de Léonard de Vinci" (Leonardo da Vinci's Tower). Within this tower, which was meant to recreate Leonardo's workshop, there was an animatronic show created by Pascal Pinteau: the show was about a painting of king François Ier suddenly coming to life and presenting to the audience Leonardo da Vinci, while making parallels between his inventions and modern day's technology. (There was also a "futuristic character" named Alpha apparently?). The special effects were overseen by Jacques Renoir (the great-grandchild of the painter Auguste Renoir), Leonardo da Vinci was voiced by Jean Topart, and Roger Carel made the voice of the other characters of the show. The animatronic of Leonardo da Vinci was renowned for being very complex and advanced - it was moved by three hundred different motors, which allowed for things such as the animatronic's eybrows to move to mimick emotions.
To the back of the Castle of Spells, there was a rollercoaster named "Le Dragon des sortilèges" (The Dragon of Spells) ; and north to the castle there was Le Labyrinthe - a two-hectar maze inspired by an actual labyrinth of the Middle-Ages. In 1988 a hot-air balloon ride was added.
Now you know how it goes: in 1989, as the park became half-carnival/funfair, a lot of carnival rides were added in the area: Le Grand Huit (Galaxi-type rollercoaster), "Télé Combat Avion" (a plane-themed ride), a ghost train "Geisterburg/Train Fantôme", a "Tagada" (a sort of horizontal platform with a bench all around it facing the inside, and the platform jumped and turned around) - and "Les Cygnes Blanc", a water-ride in swan-shaped boats (once Mirapolis was closed, it moved to the parc Saint-Paul, renowned the Pédalos cygnes).
5 ) La terre de l'aventure (Adventure Land)
West of the park, it was originally called after its main attraction, "La descente des rapides" - going down the rapids of a river on 14 meters-logs (the ride was another spnsorship of Fujifilm). There was a lot of boats-and-water based rides: there was a "tow boat ride" called "La Rivière des Castors" - Beaver River. It took the guests on a water-ride onto thriteen boats, with the shores decorated by beaver figures. There was also a "balancing boat" ride, called "Le bateau pirate" (The Pirates' ship).
When the Club Med took over Mirapolis in 1988, a lot of attractions were added - twelve hot-air balloons ; an inflating castle (La Montagne molle), a gravitron-ride (Le Galion) and a "Bateau pirate junior".
But the most striking part of this area was the Nesquik sponsorized area. It was originally just one specific ride, the "Quick Cup" (also called "La Chocolatière de Groquik"), your usual spinning-cup ride, but with Groquik on the sides of all the cups. However in 1988, the "Groquik area" expended with three more children-rides: Le Mille-Pattes, Le Chemin des tortures (a kiddie train" shaped like turtles), and the Mini-dragons (a plane-jet-ride shaped like dragons - it survived the closure of Mirapolis by becoming the "Manège dragon" of the Parc Saint-Paul before being retired for good in 2009). If you are confused by my mention of "Groquik" let me explain: before Nesquik brought over in France its chocolate-colored bunny as a mascot, France had its own Nesquik mascot called "Groquik". Created in 1978, it was a big, jolly, large yellow hippopotamus with a straw hat (he also doubled as the Greek Nesquik mascot as "Kouikaras") ; but he got officially retired in 1990 because Nesquik realized having a big, fat mascot for their products could mean their products made children fat or obese... So he was replaced by the fit, trim and athletic Nesquik bunny.
6 ) Le Pays des Légendes (Legend Land/ Legend Country)
Its original name was "La ville d'Ys", "The Town of Ys" - once again, because it was the title of the main ride, The City of Ys. [When the name Land of Legends was brought, the attraction became "Voyage sous la mer", "Travel under the sea"]. It was an omnimover scenic-ride that went fourteen meters down below the earth, and made the guests explore the legendary city of Ys - this fabulous lost city of Bretagne supposed to have sunk below the waves. The SFP society designed the monsters and animatronics encountered during this ride, from gigantic invertebrate to a ten-heads hydra. And of course, Dahut was there too - princess, witch and mermaid all at once!
There was an area called "La forêt de Brocéliande" (Broceliand forest), which contained a replica of the Round Table, and a "potager des fées" (The fairies' vegetable garden). There was a lake, and on its shore a tent - a large circus tent that actually welcomed the shows of Annie Fratellini (one of the most famous female clowns). Annie Fratellini also had there a "circus school", that presented to the guests the story of clowns from the 18th to the 20th centuries. In 1988, due to the lack of food-areas, this tent was transformed into a restaurant - it was called le "Camp du Drap d'Or" (The Field of Gold Cloth), in homage to the historical event of the same name. But in 1990, it became once again a clown-area that doubled as "Le Musée des Arts forains", a museum dedicated to funfairs and the art of carnivals.
From the second year of the park onward, there was also a Viking-theme area prepared: a Viking village built near the lake's shores, with a drakkar within the lake's water ; and a "Viking Farm" with farm animals in it. (Plus a Palace of Mirrors/Mirror maze was added there, for some reasons).
7 ) Le paradis des comptines gourmandes
(This one is a mouthful to translate... "The paradise of tasty nursery rhymes" ; "The heaven of sweet-toothed nursery rhymes")
Originally called "Le domaine des enfants" (Children's domain, Children's area), the main building of this zone was "Le Palais de Dame Tartine" - inspired by the French nursery rhyme "Dame Tartine" (Lady Toast, with her "palace of fresh butter"). The Palace itself was divided into several unities, the two most important being a two-hundred places theater ; and a "Gallery of Automatons".
The theater could be reached by going through the sleeve of a gigantic reproduction of Mister Gimblette (Dame Tartine's husband in the nursery rhyme, here crowned with a "galette des rois", the typical dish of the Epiphany). The main show of this theater was a show depicting the four seasons, and partially created by the SFP - it also had René Clermont voicing an owl who told not just the cycle of seasons but also how the world was created ; there were also other automaton-animals, as well as an enormous luminous tree of 450 kilos, made with ten thousand optic fibers. It was due to this tree that the area was sometimes called "Le théâtre de l'Arbre Lumière" (The Theater of the Light-Tree).
As for the Gallery of Automatons, it was also called la "Balade des contes" (A walk through fairytales) - going all around the Theater, this gallery was filled with animatronic animals that activated themselves when a guest came nearby, and these animatronics sang the various legends and folktales of France. Other areas within Dame Tartine's palace included a gigantic kaleidoscope, a pool of plastic balls, and another theater of 500 places.
Outside of the palace, there was also a Music-Express ride called "Caravelles", and "Le Petit Train des comptines" (The Small train of nursery rhymes) - a children ride with two little trains, whose wagons were shaped like rabbits and elephants, and which rode through a vegetable garden with giant vegetables. After the closure of Mirapolis, the Caravelles ride was moved to the Jacquou Parc (Dordogne) and renamed Gabarots.
There was also a later inclusion of a "robot" shaped area added later, during the "funfairification" of the park.
8 ) Le sommet de la grande frousse (The top of great fear / The summit of big fright)
This was actually one of the first areas of the park, just west of the entrance. In fact, during the first year of the park it was called the "Entry zone" and grouped together with the park's entrance - before the entrance and this area were divided. Its main attraction was a roller-coaster called "the Miralooping", famed for being the French roller-coasters with the most loopings at the time. Some newspapers and advertisement also called this roller-coaster the "biggest roller-coaster of France", able to rival the biggest roller-coasters of Europe (though this was apparently not certain and put to doubt?).
There was also a troika-ride called "Le Tourbillon", and most importantly a train station called the "Mirapolis Express", with three trains leaving it to go around the park (with the second train station being located at the foot of the Gargantua statue). There was also a bike-shaped ride opened in 1990 called "Les Vélos drôles" (The funny bikes).
(This picture is not of the Mirapolis park, it is the Saint Paul park - but the white swans you can see were originally those of Mirapolis)
And before leaving you for now, I will share another weird trivia about this weird park. The official logo and symbol of the park was this:
But on all the merch the park sold (such as official Mirapolis clothes), a different logo and symbol was used, and it looked like this:
The idea was that the three faces would embody the three emotions guests were supposed to go through: surprise, joy and wonder.
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Albane Garot-Loussif (Liège, Belgium)
Delfina Gaspari (Maisons-Laffitte)
Tessa-Margot Schubert (Essen, Germany)
Mathilde Petriaux (Mont-Saint-Aignan)
Catherine Clot (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Emma Ponthieu (Lille)
Mickaela Lala (Paris)
Paola Le Nindre (Le Chesnay)
Yohanna Lhopital (Lyon)
Philippine Delemazure (Valenciennes)
Gabrielle Verrier (Rouen)
Stéphanoise Arnaud (Firminy)
Guusje Van Bolhuis (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Golf
Victor Perez (Dundee, U.K.)
Matthieu Pavon (Médoc)
Céline Boutier (Montrouge)
Perrine Delacour (Laon)
Gymnastics
Samir Aït-Saïd (Champigny-Sur-Marne)
Marine Boyer (Saint-Benoît, Réunion)
Mélanie De Jesus (Houston, Texas)
Coline Devillard (Bois De Vincennes)
Morgane Osyssek-Reimer (Bois De Vincennes)
Ming Van Eijken (Saint-Étienne)
Hélène Karbanov (Calais)
Aïnhoa Dot-Espinosa (Paris)
Manelle Inaho (Paris)
Celia Joseph-Noel (Paris)
Justine Lavit (Tarbes)
Lozea Vilarino (Paris)
Pierre Gouzou (Meaux)
Léa Labrousse (Rennes)
Handball
Aymeric Minne (Melun)
Yanis Lenne (Colmar)
Nedim Remili (Créteil)
Elohim Prandi (Istres)
Melvyn Richardson (Marseille)
Dika Mem (Paris)
Nicolas Tournat (Niort)
Vincent Gérard (Woippy)
Nikola Karabatić (Strasbourg)
Luka Karabatić (Strasbourg)
Ludovic Fabregas (Perpignan)
Hugo Descat (Paris)
Valentin Porte (Versailles)
Dylan Nahi (Paris)
Karl Konan (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Rémi Desbonnet (Montpellier)
Laura Glauser (Besançon)
Méline Nocandy (Saint-Claude, Guadalupe)
Alicia Toublanc (Saint-Brieuc)
Chloé Valentini (Morteau)
Coralie Lassource (Maisons-Laffitte)
Grâce Zaadi-Deuna (Courcouronnes)
Cléopatre Darleux (Wittenheim)
Laura Flippes (Strasbourg)
Orlane Kanor (Les Abymes, Guadalupe)
Tamara Horaček (Metz)
Pauletta Foppa (Amilly)
Estelle Nze-Minko (Saint-Sébastien-Sur-Loire)
Oriane Ondono (Alfortville)
Lucie Granier (Marseille)
Sarah Bouktit (Mont-Saint-Martin)
Léna Grandveau (Beaune)
Hatadou Sako (Tournan-En-Brie)
Judo
Luka Mkheidze (Sucy-En-Brie)
Walide Khyar (Bondy)
Jean-Benjamin Gaba (Sèvres)
Alpha Djalo (Paris)
Maxime-Gaël Ngayap-Hambou (Asnières-Sur-Seine)
Aurélien Diesse (Paris)
Teddy Riner (Paris)
Shirine Boukli (Aramon)
Amandine Buchard (Noisy-Le-Sec)
Sarah-Léonie Cysique (Sarcelles)
Clarisse Agbegnenou (Rennes)
Marie-Eve Gahié (Paris)
Madeleine Malonga (Soisy-Sous-Montmorency)
Romane Dicko (Clamart)
Pentathlon
Jean-Baptiste Mourcia (Pertuis)
Valentin Prades (Cannes)
Élodie Clouvel (Saint-Priest-En-Jarez)
Marie Oteiza (Mont-De-Marsan)
Rowing
Hugo Beury (Paris)
Ferdinand Ludwig (Voiron)
Benoît Brunet (Tourcoing)
Téo Rayet (Libourne)
Hugo Boucheron (Lyon)
Matthieu Androdias (La Rochelle)
Guillaume Turlan (Bordeaux)
Thibaud Turlan (Bordeaux)
Valentin Onfroy (Verdun)
Emma Lunatti (Saint-Martin-d'Hères)
Élodie Ravera-Scaramozzino (Nice)
Claire Bové (Aubergenville)
Laura Tarantola (Annemasse)
Rugby
Varian Pasquet (Paris)
Andy Timo (Massy)
Rayan Rebbadj (Martigues)
Théo Forner (Perpignan)
Stephen Parez-Edo (Madrid, Spain)
Paulin Riva (Auch)
Jefferson-Lee Joseph (Duras)
Antoine Zeghdar (Monte Carlo, Monaco)
Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang (Pau)
Jean-Pascal Barraque (Le Chesnay)
Antoine Dupont (Castelnau-Magnoac)
Jordan Sepho (Saint-Denis, Réunion)
Nelson Épée (Toulouse)
Anne-Cécile Durbant (Colombes)
Lili Dezou (Toulouse)
Caroline Drouin (Auray)
Camille Grassineau (Bergerac)
Joanna Grisez (Paris)
Chloé Jacquet (Viriat)
An Jason (Paris)
Carla Neisen (Bugue)
Louise Noel-Rivier (Béziers)
Séraphine Okemba (Dreux)
Chloé Pelle (Paris)
Yolaine Yengo (Mare)
Sailing
Axel Mazella (Toulon)
Clément Pequin (La Rochelle)
Erwan Fischer (Saint-Nazaire)
Tim Mourniac (Quilberon)
Nico Goyard (Lorient
Jean-Baptiste Bernaz (Fréjus)
Jérémie Mion (Paris)
Louise Cervera (Cannes)
Louise Berthomieu (Nantes)
Hélène Noesmoen (Les-Sables-d'Olonne)
Lauriane Nolot (Camps-La-Source)
Charline Picon (Royan)
Sarah Steyaert (Bordeaux)
Camille Klinger (Harfleur)
Shooting
Romain Aufrère (Saint-Denis, Réunion)
Lucas Kryzs (Le Perreux-Sur-Marne)
Florian Fouquet (Talence)
Sébastien Guerrero (Grenoble)
Clément Bessaguet (Montpellier)
Jean Quiquampoix (Paris)
Éric Delaunay (Saint-Lô)
Manon Herbulot (Noise-Sur-Oise)
Judith Gomez (Toulouse)
Océanne Muller (Schiltigheim)
Camille Jedrzejewski (Compiègne)
Mathilde Lamolle (Aubagne)
Carole Cormenier (Limoges)
Mélanie Couzy (Romorantin-Lanthenay)
Lucie Anastassiou (La Rochelle)
Skateboarding
Joseph Garbaccio (La Havre)
Vincent Matheron (Marseille)
Aurélien Giraud (Lyon)
Vincent Milou (Tarnos)
Émilie Alexandre (Marseille)
Louise-Aina Taboulet (Leucate)
Lucie Schoonheere (Paris)
Soccer
Obed Nkambadio (Paris)
Costello Lukeba (Lyon)
Adrien Truffert (Saint-Priest)
Loïc Badé (Sèvres)
Kiliann Sildillia (Montigny-Lès-Metz)
Manu Koné (Colombes)
Michael Olise (London, U.K.)
Maghnes Akilouche (Tremblay-En-France)
Arnaud Kalimuendo-Muinga (Suresnes)
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
Désiré Doué (Angers)
Enzo Millot (Lucé)
Joris Chotard (Orange)
Jean-Philippe Mateta (Sevran)
Banzouzi Locko (Ivry-Sur-Seine)
Guillaume Restes (Montaudran)
Soungoutou Magassa (Stains)
Mathis Cherki (Lyon)
Chrislain Matsima (Nanterre)
Andy Diouf (Nanterre)
Johann Lepenant (Granville)
Constance Picaud (Challans)
Maëlle Lakrar (Orange)
Wendie Renard (Lyon)
Estelle Cascarino (Saint-Priest)
Delphine Cascarino (Saint-Priest)
Élisa De Almeida (Châtenay-Malabry)
Amadine Henry (Lille)
Sakina Karchaoui (Miramas)
Onema Geyoro (Orléans)
Eugénie Le Sommer-Dariel (Grasse)
Kadidiatou Diani (Ivry-Sur-Seine)
Marie-Antoinette Katoto (Colombes)
Selma Bacha (Lyon)
Sandie Toletti (Bagnols-Sur-Cèze)
Kenza Dali (Sainte-Colombe)
Pauline Payraud-Magnin (Lyon)
Sandy Baltimore (Colombes)
Griedge Mbock-Bathynka (Brest)
Vicki Bècho-Desbonne (Montreuil)
Ève Périsset (Saint-Priest)
Surfing
Jean Duru (Ondres)
Kauli Vaast (Teahupo'o, French Polynesia)
Johanne Defay (Saint-Denis, Réunion)
Vahiné Fierro (Teahupo'o, French Polynesia)
Swimming
Pacome Bricout (Cannes)
Guillaume Guth (Le Chesnay)
Wessam-Amazigh Yebba (Poitiers)
Roman Fuchs (Dijon)
Yann Le Goff (Quimper)
Maxime Grousset (Nouméa, New Caledonia)
Florent Manaudou (Villeurbanne)
Rafael Fente-Damers (Houston, Texas)
David Aubry (Saint-Germain-En-Laye)
Damien Joly (Ollouiles)
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (Chambéry)
Mewen Tomac (Évreux)
Clément Secchi (Aix En Provence)
Léon Marchand (Toulouse)
Hadrien Salvan (Paris)
Antoine Viquerat (Boulogne-Billancourt)
Marc-Antoine Olivier (Denain)
Logan Fontaine (Argentan)
Laelys Alavez (Quincy-Sous-Sénart)
Ambre Esnault (Hyères)
Romane Lunel (Alençon)
Laura Gonzalez (Toulouse)
Manon Disbeaux (Toulouse)
Eve Planeix (Clermont-Ferrand)
Anastasia Bayandina (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
Laura Tremble (Compiègne)
Charlotte Tremble (Compiègne)
Pauline Mahieu (Villenueve-d'Ascq)
Marina Jehl (Colmar)
Mary-Ambre Moluh (Champigny-Sur-Marne)
Lilou Ressencourt (Lannemezan)
Béryl Gastaldello (Marseille)
Mélanie Henique (Amiens)
Marie Wattel (Lille)
Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (Martigues)
Emma Terebo (Nouméa, New Caledonia)
Charlotte Bonnet (Enghien-Les-Bains)
Lison Nowaczyk (Auchel)
Lucile Tessariol (Bordeaux)
Assia Touati (Sarreguemines)
Caroline Jouisse (Saint-Mandé)
Océane Cassignol (Béziers)
Table tennis
Jules Rolland (Paris)
Alex Lebrun (Montpellier)
Félix Lebrun (Montpellier)
Simon Gouzy (Toulouse)
Prithika Pavade (Le Bourget)
Yuan Jia (Cholet)
Charlotte Lutz (Hochfelden)
Audrey Zarif (Saint-Denis)
Taekwondo
Cyrien Ravet (Lyon)
Souleyman Alaphilippe (Argenteuil)
Magda Wiet-Hénin (Nancy)
Althéa Laurin (Saint-Denis)
Tennis
Arthur Fils (Bondoufle)
Ugo Humbert (Metz)
Gaël Monfils (Geneva, Switzerland)
Corentin Moutet (Boulogne-Billancourt)
Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Boulogne-Billancourt)
Clara Burel (Perros-Guirec)
Caroline Garcia (Lyon)
Varvara Gracheva (Paris)
Diane Parry (Boulogne-Billancourt)
Triathlon
Léo Bergère (Le Pont-De-Beauvoisin)
Dorian Coninx (Échirolles)
Pierre Le Corre (Vannes)
Cassandre Beaugrand (Livry-Gargan)
Emma Lombardi (Chambéry)
Léonie Périault (Vélizy-Villacoublay)
Volleyball
Arnaud Gauthier-Rat (Saint-Maurice)
Youssef Krou (Toulouse)
Rémi Bassereau (Villeneuve-Saint-Georges)
Julien Lyneel (Montpellier)
Barthélémy Chinenyeze (Coudekerque-Branche)
Jenia Grebennikov (Rennes)
Jean Patry (Montpellier)
Ben Toniutti (Mulhouse)
Kévin Tillie (Cagnes-Sur-Mer)
Earvin N'Gapeth (Fréjus)
Antoine Brizard (Poitiers)
Nicolas Le Goff (Paris)
Trévor Clévenot (Royan)
Yacine Louati (Tourcoing)
Théo Faure (Pessac)
Quentin Jouffroy (Grenoble)
Lézana Placette (Toulouse)
Alexia Richard (Toulouse)
Aline Chamereau (Toulouse)
Clemence Vieira (Toulouse)
Héléna Cazaute (Narbonne)
Amadine Giardino (La Seyne-Sur-Mer)
Christina Bauer (Pfastatt)
Iman Ndiaye (Plano, Texas)
Nina Stojiljković (Paris)
Lucille Gicquel (Rennes)
Amandha Sylves (Baie-Manhout, Guadalupe)
Léandra Olinga-Andela (Évreux)
Émilie Respaut (Saint-Raphaël)
Amélie Rotar (Martigues)
Halimatou Bah (Épinay-Sous-Sénart)
Juliette Gelin (Montpellier)
Water polo
Clément Dubois (Compiègne)
Alexandre Bouet (Montpellier)
Thomas Vernoux (Marseille)
Romain Marion-Vernoux (Marseille)
Emil Bjorch (Slagelse, Denmark)
Pierre-Frédéric Vanpeperstraete (Marcq-En-Barœul)
Enzo Nardon (Saint-Jean-d'Angély)
Hugo Fontani (Nice)
Rémi Saudadier (Dijon)
Ugo Crousillat (Marseille)
Enzo Khasz (Sète)
Mehdi Marzouki (Noisy-Le-Sec)
Michaël Bodegas (La Seyne-Sur-Mer)
Valentine Heurteaux (Marseille)
Aurélie Battu (Limoges)
Audrey Daule (Oyonnax)
Pasiphaé Martineaud-Peret (Paris)
Mia Ryclaw (Walnut, California)
Lara Andres (Mulhouse)
Camélia Bouloukbachi (Paris)
Louise Guillet (Limoges)
Hertzka Orsolya (Budapest, Hungary)
Juliette Dhalluin (Mulhouse)
Ema Vernoux (Marseille)
Camille Radosavljevic (Mulhouse)
Tiziana Raspo (Nice)
Weightliftng
Bernardin Matam (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Romain Imadouchène (Saint-Pol-Sur-Mer)
Dora Tchakounté (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Marie Fegue (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Wrestling
Mamadassa Sylla (Paris)
Améline Douarre (Le Creusot)
Koumba Larroque (Arpajon)
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