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Below is the recap for "La Boulangerie Est Ouverte" (lit. "The Bakery Is Open"), the second episode of the fourth season of Drag Race France. Just so you know, there are spoilers below.

The nine remaining queens return to the werkroom to read Creatine's mirror message. After Margarette reads Creatine's message, she wipes it off. The queens congratulate her for surviving the lip-sync and Azémylia for winning the first maxi-challenge. They then de-drag to end the day.

This week, the judging panel consists of Nicky Doll, Daphné Bürki, Anggun, and two special guest judges. They are French singer-songwriter/YouTuber Bilal Hassani and Swiss fashion designer Kevin Germanier. Hassani is best-known for representing France in the 2019 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, where he placed 16th with the song "Roi" (lit. "King"). He also has an upcoming album entitled Bonsoir Paris (his fourth overall), set to be released next month (August 2026). Meanwhile, Germanier specializes in upcycled and sustainable womenswear. Germanier also has a line of purses featuring Sanrio-licensed characters. (Hello Kitty, etc.)

The next day, the queens return to the werkroom ready to find out who Creatine gave the Golden Baguette to. Sublyme hopes it is her, while Margarette doesn't want it to be her because she's terrible at making choices. Margarette then gets up to the basket where the baguette lies in wait. She, along with everyone, finds out that, in fact, Creatine did give the Golden Baguette to Margarette. Despite her thoughts on this, she is happy after all. We then find out that Sublyme has dentures. As she's about to take them off, the rooster crows.

In the next Nicky-mail, Nicky concludes that, after getting to know the queens, she really likes them all. She then shares two things with them, her stage and her power. Nicky is counting on the queens to use them right. After she makes her way onto the werkroom floor, Nicky first congratulates Margarette on having the Golden Baguette. She then issues the first mini-challenge of the season, in which the queens will head to the bakery. Nicky gives them five minutes to get into quick, out-to-the-bakery drag.

After the five minutes have elapsed, Nicky lets them in on a secret. She loves the first baguette made in the morning, especially when it's still warm. However, she hates having to go out and get it, and that's where the queens come in for a sack race for their first mini-challenge. In groups of three, the queens hop across the werkroom floor to retrieve a baguette and bring it back to Nicky. The first queen to do so will advance to the final sack race for the mini-challenge win. The results are as follows:

Holly wins against Fluffy and Lana. However, Holly sustained an injury when she fell and landed on her hand as she crossed the finish line.

Daisy wins against Malawitte and Margarette.

Sublyme wins against Azémylia and Harpie.

The final sack race is amongst Holly, Daisy, and Sublyme. To make it a bit harder, Nicky now wanted two baguettes. Sublyme wins the sack race and becomes the mini-challenge winner. She wins a one-on-one breakfast with Nikki.

Nicky then issues the queens' next maxi-challenge in which they'll need to light up the stage alone. It's the talent show maxi-challenge, and each queen will have two minutes to impress the judges. The judges want extravagance, madness, and camp. Nicky then reveals the guest judges above before leaving the werkroom.

In response to Margarette asking about the upcoming talent show, Malawitte is a bit nervous about her sewing talent, knowing a fashion designer is on the judging panel. Holly is still on the mend from her injury in the mini-challenge, but plans to do gymnastics.

Lana is doing a burlesque striptease in tribute to her dad, but is also nervous about him watching her. It will have an element of rock'n'roll because that's what connects them. Although their relationship was distant at first, Lana and her dad now love each other very much.

Sublyme and Holly then detail their relationships with their respective fathers. Sublyme's late dad didn't really express his feelings (which is a family thing), while Holly's relationship with her dad is nonexistent after his divorce from Holly's mother.

After a little while, Daisy expresses that she is struggling to feel at peace on the show. For her, drag is a way to pull herself out of her deep loneliness, which she still feels. She also feels she's standing in Lana's way, but Lana confirms that Daisy is not.

Nicky walks out onto the main stage of DRF, introduces the judges above, and then starts the talent show. This is followed by the runway show, for which the category is "Intergalactic".

After the runway show and a round of applause, Nicky calls upon Margarette, Harpie, Daisy, Malawitte, Holly, and Azémylia to declare them the tops and bottoms of the week. The other three are safe to slay another day and are dismissed to the werkroom. After the tops and bottoms receive their critiques, they reunite with the safe queens for Untucked. The judges also deliberate.

The queens are then brought back out onto the stage. Nicky names Daisy the winner of the talent show maxi-challenge. Daisy wins a €1,500 (US$1,716.15) cash prize courtesy of Louis de Poortere, a French rug and carpet store. Margarette and Azémylia also receive their praises. Margarette also has a decision to make on who to save from the LSFYL among the bottom three of Holly, Malawitte, and Harpie. She decides to save Harpie, meaning that Holly and Malawitte have to lip-sync for their lives.

Below is the recap for "Drag Academy", the fourth season premiere of Drag Race France. Just so you know, there are spoilers below.

Listed below are the ten queens vying to become France's next drag superstar. Each queen's age, locale, and hometown (if available) is in parentheses.

Azémylia (27, Paris)

Creatine Price (35, Paris, but originally from Buffalo, NY, USA)

Daisy Superbitch (33, Paris, but originally from and living in Belgium)

Fluffy Bidule (27, Bordeaux, but originally from Portugal)

Holly White (40, Cannes)

La Harpie (27, Lille)

Lana Cotta (22, Marseille)

Malawitte (26, Paris, but originally from Malawi)

Margarette (26, Paris)

Sublyme (31, Lille)

Of note, Malawitte is the first cisgender woman competing on DRF. RPDR alum Nicky Doll returns as the host and main judge. TV personality Daphné Bürki and journalist/filmmaker Loïc Prigent also make their return as judges. Making her debut this season, Indonesian-French singer Anggun joins the three of them on the judging panel.

The episode starts with a look at the Drag Race France werkroom morphing throughout the years into the new werkroom in which the ten queens listed above will do their best werk. It is at this point when the twist is revealed to be a “Golden Baguette”, which is DRF’s take on the Golden Beaver/Chippy Tea.

The judging panel for the premiere consists of Nicky, Daphné, Anggun, and the special guest judge, French actress and singer Isabelle Adjani. Adjani won the Best Actress award five times at the César Awards, primarily in the 80s. The winner of DRF will receive:

A crown and scepter, courtesy of YPARIS

A one-year supply of makeup, courtesy of Enchantée by (DRF alum) Kam Hugh

A one-year supply of hair products, courtesy of Cut by Fred.

A one-year supply of skincare products, courtesy of Kiehl’s

After the ten new queens make their grand entrances into the werkroom and the countdown from 10 to zero elapses, Nicky walks into the werkroom and makes her way down onto the werkroom floor. She introduces the judging panel and the Golden Baguette twist, the latter with a Pit Crew member.

Each week’s eliminated queen will give the Golden Baguette to a remaining queen of her choosing. That remaining queen will then decide which one of the bottom three queens gets saved from the following week’s LSFYL. That queen can also choose to save herself if she needs to.

Nicky then issues the first maxi-challenge of the season, in which the queens are going back to school, hence the title of this premiere. Like any new class, they’ll want to have an iconic official school anthem. Luckily for them, Upsilone, France’s king of feel-good dance, wrote “Born To Be Belle et Fière” ("...beautiful and proud") just for them.

Renowned choreographer Jonathan Jenvrin will provide the choreography for the maxi-challenge. Nicky reveals the guest judge above, then brings in both Jonathan and Marlène Schaff to evaluate the queens’ current skills in dance, singing, and comedy. The both of Jonathan and Marlène were also teachers on the French version of Star Academy, a reality competition show not unlike The Voice. This also ties in to the title of this premiere.

After the evaluations, it was decided that Azémylia was the best overall. This means that she gets her pick of when she’ll perform in the upcoming challenge. The nine other queens don’t get that chance. The queens then finally de-drag and listen to the song. There’s not much of a kerfuffle when the queens decide who will perform when. Azémylia, for her part, chose to perform the third verse. The ten of them then record the song with Marlène and learn some choreography from Jonathan to end the day.

The next day, the queens return to the werkroom to prepare for the day ahead. We learn that while Malawitte is certainly used to the dancing, she is an introvert. Malawitte then goes on to discuss her being judged by other drag queens, but she continues to stand firm in doing drag as a cisgender lesbian woman.

Fluffy recounted her time while recording her verse for the anthem, which led her to discuss how Marlène pierced the armor of protection she had built for herself. She realized she is trans, and she learned a lot from that. She is slowly rebuilding her own pride by being on DRF.

Nicky steps out onto the main stage of DRF, introduces the judges above and has her fun with them, and then introduces the anthem for the challenge. After the challenge, Nicky announces the category for the season's first runway show: "Dress Excess".

After the runway show and a round of applause, Nicky announces the queens will be touring around France in the fall. She then proceeds to call upon Fluffy, Holly, Daisy, and Lana to declare them safe and dismiss them to the werkroom. The other six queens represent the tops and the bottoms of the week. After they receive their critiques, the six of them are then dismissed to reunite with the safe queens for Untucked and for the judges to deliberate.

After the deliberations, the queens are brought back out. Nicky names Azémylia the winner of this week's maxi-challenge. She wins a one-year supply of bouquets, courtesy of Florajet.com. Malawitte and Sublyme get their props. All three of them are dismissed to the back. After listing the flaws of Creatine, Harpie, and Margarette, Nicky decides to save Harpie. This leaves Creatine and Margarette to lip-sync for their lives.

Below is the recap for “The Nicky d’Or”, the seventh episode of Season 1 of Drag Race France All-Stars. Just so you know, there are spoilers below.

After Kam's elimination by Piche, the five remaining queens are in good spirits, with the possible exception of Moon, who hasn't earned a badge yet. Elips reveals that she chose to save Kam and listed her reasons why. As they de-drag, Moon hopes to win a badge.

Nicky announces that the judging panel consists of Daphné Bürki, the returning Loïc Prigent, and replacing Shy'm are the guest judges, musician Santa (aka Samanta Cotta) and comedian Marcus (aka Marc Vivian Geromegnace).

For the last time this season, the rooster crows. Nicky announces, via Nicky-mail, that a ceremony will be held for the four "winners" who will be attending next week's finale. Nicky then walks into the werkroom and has brought along Lova Ladiva for the mini-challenge, which will be a rousing game of "The Weakest Heel".

The rules are that if a queen gets one question wrong or gives no answer at all, they're (at risk of being) eliminated! Before that, the five remaining queens have five minutes to get into quick drag. It was down to Moon and Elips for the win, and Moon won on a question about French cities that contain the letter "I".

Back in the werkroom, Nicky declares that the upcoming maxi-challenge will be a roast themed around "The Nicky d'Or" awards ceremony. Since an awards ceremony involves celebrities, there'll be a little bit of the Snatch Game incorporated into the challenge, too. She then announces the guest judges above.

Since Moon won the mini-challenge, she gets to determine the running order. After discussing impersonations, Moon and the group have determined that Mami will go first, Moon will be next, followed by Misty, then Piche, and Elips will wrap the ceremony by going last. As the queens get ready, the topic of their families is brought up, sparked by Piche briefly discussing her relationship with her twin brother.

After the ceremony (roast) and the "Long Live The Queen" runway show, Nicky gave a few words on how proud she - and all of France and beyond - is of the five of them. She then asks each one of them why they deserve to be the winner. After the queens gave their speeches, they then received mostly positive critiques.

Below is the mini recap for "Queenovision", the sixth episode of Season 1 of Drag Race France All-Stars. Just so you know, there are spoilers below.

In Loïc's place, Nicky announces that the guest judges for the episode are actress/director/feminist Judith Godrèche and choreographer Mehdi Kerkouche.

The six remaining queens were first tasked with a mini-challenge that tested their tongue and speaking skills. The queens had five minutes to get into quick drag. Then they got paired up to play charades and guess as many French expressions in two minutes each team is given. Misty/Kam, Moon/Mami, and Piche/Elips were the pairs formed, and the latter pair won the mini-challenge by guessing the most expressions.

The maxi-challenge was another team effort, which meant the queens were to pair up again for the Queenovision Song Contest, a parody of the long-running Eurovision Song Contest. Three songs were sung: "Oui, Oui, J'adore", "French Cake", and "Révolution!" The aforementioned choregrapher Kerkouche would choreograph the queens for the maxi-challenge. The Pit Crew brought out clothes in the French tricolor of blue, white, and red which the queens would have to incorporate into their performances.

The same pairs that were formed for the mini-challenge would be the ones for Queenovision. Nicky then revealed a red lipstick that the winner of the maxi-challenge would take home, but hadn't yet revealed its power. After Nicky left, since Piche and Elips won the mini-challenge, they got first pick of the three songs above. Here is how that was settled:

Piche and Elips picked "Oui, Oui, J'adore" and the red color.

Moon and Mami picked "French Cake" and the white color.

Kam and Misty picked "Révolution!" and the blue color.

After the judges' introductions, the performances were done first in the order above, then the category for the runway show was "Circus Couture". After a bit of a scare, the four queens that had been eliminated so far made their returns in a "Circus Couture" look of their own. This is where the red lipstick from earlier comes in. It grants the winning queen the power not to eliminate a queen, but to save a queen. If that queen happens to be one of the four previously eliminated queens, that chosen queen is brought back into the competition, and both of the bottom queens will be eliminated.

Below is the recap for "Golden Snatch Game", the third episode of Season 1 of Drag Race France All-Stars. Just so you know, there are spoilers below.

After the intro and recap of last week's episode, the nine remaining All Stars return to the werkroom, and they're all exhausted from the all-nighters they pulled working on last week's Ball challenge. Soa is touched by Elips's actions in keeping her over Magnetica. Kam reveals that she also picked Magnetica. Elips reflects on wiping her first mirror message for winning the challenge. Misty is ready for the games to begin.

Nicky announces that the judging panel for this Snatch Game episode consists of Daphné Bürki, Loïc Prigent, actress Camille Razat, and comedian Noam Sinseau. Razat is best known for her role as Camille in the Netflix series Emily in Paris, while Sinseau has his own one-man show, Makoumè Superstar, which blends stand-up comedy, poetry, and voguing.

The next day after the queens walk inside the werkroom, Elips and Kam play-fight over Elips's badge, while Soa is ready for the next challenge. The rooster crows, and in the Nicky-mail, Nicky asks the queens if they're on the list, because it's a private party. She then suggests that there is only one way to make it in: to be a star.

After Nicky comes into the werkroom, she then remarks on the fact that some of France's biggest stars have come on the show. But this week, it is the queens' turn to be the stars the show needs. This means it's Snatch Game time!

As a reminder to those who aren't Drag Race fans, in the Snatch Game, it is the queen's job to impersonate a celebrity of their choosing and make Nicky and the "contestants" laugh while answering some kooky questions. The twist is that they'll be playing with the aforementioned actress Camille Razat and comedian Noam Sinseau, who are to be team captains in the "Family Feud"-style twist called "Golden Snatch Game".

By order of introduction, below is a list of the celebrities who were impersonated, with the name of the queen doing said impersonation in parentheses. The top five celebs below were in the Razat family, while the bottom four were in the Sinseau family:

King Louis XIV (Punani)

Restaurateur and actress Maïté (Bertha)

Businesswoman and entrepreneur Caroline Margeridon (Kam)

Comedienne Corinne Benizio, who is more known as "Shirley" of the comic duo "Shirley and Dino" (Moon)

The Eiffel Tower (Mami)

Sylvie Jenaly, the French Supernanny (Piche)

Actress Mélanie Laurent (Elips)

Jacques, a former contestant on Questions pour un champion, the French adaptation of the TV game show Going For Gold (Soa)

Children's TV presenter and singer Frédérique Hoschedé, better known as Dorothée (Misty)

After an amusing Snatch Game, Nicky gathered the celebrities for a brand-new charity single entitled "Good is Good, Bad is Bad", which they would have to perform live on stage, sans Razat and Sinseau.

The next day, as the queens get ready in the werkroom, Kam remarks that she had fun with her Snatch Game performance, which wasn't the case for her first time. Soa also had fun, felt like she tried something no one else had before, and defended her Snatch Game. Moon tells the other queens she has a boyfriend. They've been together for a year and a half. She then recounts how they met, and she also sees herself starting a family one day.

It's runway time! Nicky walks out onto the stage and introduces the aforementioned judging panel. The category for the runway show is "All Blown Up", which had looks with elements that blew up as each queen walked.

After the show and another promo of the live tour, Nicky calls on Moon and Elips for honorable mentions for their runway looks and that they're both safe to slay another day. The other seven queens are the tops and bottoms of the week. After the judges' critiques, Nicky named Misty and Punani the top two queens, thus leaving Bertha safe. Nicky also declared Piche and Mami safe, leaving Kam and Soa as the bottom two queens.

Below is the mini recap for the grand finale of the third season of Drag Race France. At 91 minutes even, this is one of the longest episodes of Drag Race ever. It might be the longest finale, if memory serves. I am warning you all now: if you don't want major spoilers on who won this season of Drag Race France, please don't read on.

To review, the following queens are the top four finalists and will be referred to as "the top four" from this point on:

Le Filip, 29, from Paris (originally from Zagreb, Croatia)

Leona Winter, 28, from Perpignan

Lula Strega, 26, from Paris

Ruby On The Nail, 34, from Marseille

This year's grand finale, like last year's, was held at the 2,700-seat Le Grand Rex theatre and concert venue in the 2nd arr. of Paris. I mistakenly placed it in the 1st arr. of Paris in my post for last year's DRF finale. I apologize for my error and promise to do better.

After all the S3 queens brought out their "Dragnifique" looks for the walkout runway show, they performed the last bit of "Voulez-Vous Drag Race Avec Moi Ce Soir?", the song from the S3 premiere. Nicky then came out, performed one of her songs, and welcomed the audience to the finale. She then welcomed Daphné and Kiddy onto the stage, and they had a comedic bit about S2's Rose and Punani being in their seats. Each of the top four had a highlight reel of their best moments before they performed their original songs live in front of the audience. Below are the titles of the songs from each of the top four, in order by which they performed:

Le Filip - "Hrvatica Baby" ("Croatian Baby")

Lula Strega - "Brûle" ("Burn")

Leona Winter - "Reine de coeur" ("Queen of Hearts")

Ruby On The Nail - "Ç'est Qui La Plus Belle?" ("Who's The Prettiest Girl?")

After each performance, each of the top four got their final critiques from Daphné and Kiddy. Each of the top four also got to comment on their DRF journey, along with shouting out and hearing from their significant others and close friends. Finally, a Pit Crew member brought out onto the stage a childhood photo of each of the top four, along with having said photo being blown up on the big screen. With this in mind, Nicky got to ask each of the top four what they would say to their younger selves.

In between performances, a highlight reel of the season's funniest moments was showcased, then Nicky briefly interviewed each of the six other queens from S3 about their journeys on stage. In a highlight of those interviews, Perseo and S2 finalist Sara Forever had a split-off. In another highlight, Nicky welcomed fellow S12 queens Jan and Jackie Cox to help touch-up her makeup.

After all of the top four had their performances, there was another highlight reel with the season's most emotional moments, along with another performance of a rockabilly-like song about being yourself by all of the queens from S3. After that, Nicky announced a countrywide tour featuring all of the S3 queens that will start on September 14th.

Nicky then announced that it was time for the results of DRF S3's Miss Congeniality. S2's Miss Congeniality, Moon, was on hand to announce that Norma Bell was voted by the queens as this year's Miss Congeniality.

However, before announcing the top two queens, the phone rang. Before she hung up, however, Nicky revealed that it was her mom. After asking about the phone twist and reviewing the winner's prize package, Nicky revealed that Filip and Ruby would be lip-syncing for the crown. By virtue of this bit of news, Leona and Lula were eliminated.

Below is the mini recap for “La Folle Journée Drag”, the seventh episode of the third season of Drag Race France. Please be advised that there are spoilers below.

The five remaining queens, now semifinalists, first took on “The Weakest Heel” mini-challenge, a dragtastic take on The Weakest Link game show franchise. Nicky brought out Lova Ladiva to resume her role as host in order to ask the five queens questions relating to random topics. After a rapid fire succession of answering, Lula was the strongest heel and was declared the winner of the mini-challenge.

For this week’s first maxi-challenge, each queen will have to design their own wig, and they all started from the same base wig of a long, brunette wig with body waves.

German actress Diane Kruger and comedic actor Panayotis Pascot were the special guest judges for the maxi-challenge and the runway show. For the latter, the category was “Haute Hairstyling”. The judges let the queens explain what they did with their ‘dos before the phone rang. When Nicky hung up, she then told the queens that in order to become France’s next drag superstar, the judges need to see all their qualities.

The second maxi-challenge was a comedic roast for DRF S2 winner Keiona’s farewell party. As the mini-challenge winner, Lula got to determine the running order and the queens had one hour to write their routines. Lula went first, Misty went next, followed by Leona, then by Ruby, with Filip performing last. The judges sent Keiona off, when she revealed that she would be at next week’s finale to help crown France’s next drag superstar.

After the roast, the phone rang once again. This time, when Nicky hung up, she told the queens that for the third maxi-challenge, they would have one hour to prepare to perform a new summer hit. This meant coming up with choreography and writing their lyrics for the summer hit entitled “Secouer, secouer” (“Shake, shake”). After the performance, a second runway show was had. The category was “Hair Couture”.

After this gauntlet of a day the queens had, they received their critiques. Then Nicky asked each queen what makes them France’s next drag superstar. After the deliberations, Lula was named the winner of the gauntlet maxi-challenge. Along with another year’s subscription to Deezer and a cash tip of €1,000, Lula won the latest smartphone and €1,000 worth of photos, courtesy of Lalalab. Lula is also the first finalist.