Brigitte Bardot, flowery writing and sharp spikes

BB, with her soul as an eternal woman-child, enjoyed the shock formula well before the fashion for the punchline. The great people of this world did not scare him. To Winston Churchill she confessed: “You scared me on the radio when I was eight, but I think you’re cute for a legend”. To his friend and rival Claudia Cardinale, both “Oil machines” at the cinema, she will say, laughing, “CC comes after BB, naturally”. Magnanimous, Visconti’s Angelica will never hold it against him.

“Ah! I would have said things that were unripe and unripe…My frankness has sometimes shocked the hypocrites”. Adored actress or fierce fighter for the animal cause, Brigitte Bardot has never stopped dishing out often funny and sometimes deadly barbs. She was so proud of her blunt responses that in 2008 she dubbed a collection of her remarks compiled by François Bagnaud before writing it herself in 2025, with her round and flowery writing as famous as her dancer’s arches, a BabyBecedary (Fayard), a sort of definitive breviary of his piquant gesture, his memoirs from beyond Bardot.

Love and good (or bad) morals have always inspired him with offbeat words, especially in the more formal times of the years preceding May 68. The whole world was then more interested in his Vichy outfits and his escapades. After two marriages, two divorces and a few lovers, she declared: “love only lasts three months!” ». This sad tirade does not prevent him from magnifying his loves. Twenty later, nostalgia obliges, perhaps remembering the song Initials B.B.she asserts, “George Sand met Musset, Chopin; I met Serge Gainsbourg”. Of The Devil’s Pond has God created womanthere was only a century that Brigitte had been able to cross.

One sentence too many

Light, corrosive, gently naughty when she talks about love, cinema, (unbridled) sexuality, Saint-Tropez and fidelity, BB turns into a tigress when it comes to defending animals, which she prefers, it must be admitted, to humans. The anthology of his marks began in 1962: “When I have no one to give affection to, I kiss my dogs”. From misanthropy to misanthropy, Bardot will refine her speech over time. After “Fur in the Garbage” or “The Agricultural Show is the Cannes Animal Festival”some ministers and presidents of the Republic (Chirac, Sarkozy, Macron…) are pilloried because they failed to keep their promises to ban bullfighting or hunting.

The « furia B.B. » reached its climax in 1996. It was one sentence too many that earned him a trial:“If Muslims stopped slaughtering sheep tomorrow, I would think they are the most wonderful people in the world”. The idol falls from its pedestal. She will end up beating her guilt, by recognizing, in a documentary by Elora Thevenet and Alain Berliner, simply titledBardot (2025), that it went too far, but still for the animals.

And God…created woman by Roger Vadim in 1956, with Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant…