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Thread #174596   Message #4233710
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
02-Jan-26 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
Subject: RE: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
Le Monde obit in English.
'From sex appeal to the far right': Brigitte Bardot's death in the international press
International media outlets paid tribute to Bardot, who died on Sunday, celebrating her film career and her social influence from the 1950s onward, yet also calling out her political choices, which later drifted toward the far right.

You can only read a bit of it since it is a subscriber journal.

The Guardian
Brigitte Bardot obituary
Film star who shot to fame in And God Created Woman in the 1950s and later became a campaigner against animal cruelty

A snippet from that one:
On rainy afternoons in these places, over many years, she wrote her memoirs. Initiales BB (1996) became a million-seller, as did its sequel, Pluto’s Square (1999); in them she was frank about the many discarded lovers, the abortions and the despair, but she was also an incorrigible social conservative about race, homosexuality and immigration. In 1992 she had married Bernard d’Ormale, adviser to the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. As usual, it was romantic love at first sight; they wed impromptu in a remote Norwegian church. Their shared views lent durability to the union, and Bardot later endorsed Marine Le Pen’s runs for the presidency.