View image in fullscreen Brigitte Bardot in A Very Private Affair, 1962. And yet, after her death, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, called her the “legend of the century”, writing that “Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom”. View image in fullscreen Brigitte Bardot supporting the French animal protection society in Gennevilliers, Paris, in 1982. As a mouthpiece for the radical right in recent decades, “Brigitte Bardot no longer bothered with nuance” but lived as a recluse in her Saint-Tropez estate, “surrounded by animals and her temper”. View image in fullscreen Brigitte Bardot with her husband, Bernard d’Ormale, a senior adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, on a carriage tour through Vienna in May 2002.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2026 09:00 UTC