Raymonde Allain

{{Short description|French model and actress (1912–2008)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Raymonde Allain

| image = Miss-verkiezingen, SFA022829068.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Raymonde Allain between 1927 and 1928

| birth_date = 22 June 1912

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = 27 July 2008 (aged 96)

| death_place = Paris, France

| othername = Raymonde Jeanne Simone Allain

| occupation = Actress, Model

| yearsactive = 1928-1950 (film)

}}

Raymonde Allain (22 June 1912 – 27 July 2008) was a French model and actress.{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|date=1999|page=168}} She was Miss France in 1928.{{cite news|url=https://www.letelegramme.fr/histoire/concours-la-bretagne-terre-de-miss-09-12-2018-12155520.php|language=fr|title=Concours. La Bretagne, terre de Miss|work=Le Télégramme|first=Kévin|last=Storme|date=December 14, 2018|access-date=January 7, 2018}} Her participation in the Miss Universe contest drew international media attention,{{cite book|title=The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic|first=Holly|last=Grout|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|date=May 13, 2015|isbn=9780807159903}} and her controversial loss to American {{Ill|Ella Van Hueson|fr}} prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty".{{cite news|title=Paris Quarrels over Milady Beautiful|newspaper=Washington Post|date=July 8, 1928}} Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté.