[…] Certainly, in France, no one can claim to have been shocked by Bardot’s politics, and many of her obituaries there have been clear-eyed about what she represented. Bardot “embodied racial hatred”, wrote Clément Guillou in Le Monde, and was “an exception in French culture – the only celebrity to openly defend the far right”. For more than three decades until her death, Bardot was married to Bernard d’Ormale, a senior adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front party. (Le Pen would write approvingly that Bardot was “nostalgic for a clean France”.)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/sex-object-animal-rights-activist-racist-paradox-brigitte-bardot
#France is better off without her. It’s tragic that those who embody the worst of humanity often live the longest.
#BrigitteBardot #islamophobia #lepen