It’s not just an ordinary house, it’s a true sanctuary for Brigitte Bardot. For the former cinema icon, it is even the place of a life. This is where she has lived since 1958, where she works, where she set up her animal foundation, where she lives far from the media and where she feels good. La Madrague is inseparable from BB, just as BB is from La Madrague. This residence in Saint-Tropez to which she even dedicated a song with lyrics that have become legendary. This fisherman’s house in the small southern town caught his eye two years after the triumph of And God… created woman. The then-24-year-old actress listened to her parents, who owned La Saravia in Saint-Tropez, visit this villa “feet in the water”. And love at first sight was immediate and for 24 million old francs, Brigitte Bardot became the owner. From this workers’ villa, she turned it into an exceptional house that she took years to shape.
BB likes “rustic houses”
“La Madrague suffers from a certain dilapidation, without running water, only a dry well in summer. We wash dishes there and wash with sea water…”recounted Yves Bigot in Brigitte Bardot: the most beautiful and scandalous woman in the world. He then recounted the first years that BB spent there. “She cooks simple there and (…)
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