“JI’m dreading September 28… They’re going to end up making me die! (laugh) I’m not planning anything in particular. It will be my life like every day. My dream and the goal of my life in fact, is just to see one of my wishes come true (from hippophagy to the abolition of bullfights, Editor’s note). I wouldn’t want to die before I got this“, Brigitte Bardot tirelessly repeats when she is picked up among her family.
Namely his whirling four-legged companions in La Garrigue, his half-day refuge in Saint-Tropez, when the water sports parking lots, right in front of La Madrague, become too heavy…
The exhausting “always more”…
No need to redo yet another retrospective of “his life, his work”. Brigitte will experience the celebrations around her ninetieth birthday this evening in the present.
“I just want it to be a nice day. All my life, I have been manipulated, tricked, photographed like no one in the world has been able to be. Now what I want is calm, serenity, the sweetness of life and more all that nonsense”she is accustomed to explaining in her Saint-Tropez arch while media requests have continued to increase from all over the world on the eve of this weekend which has been flashing on the diaries since the beginning of the year. The one who is said to be a recluse has not spared contacts on the eve of this date which she recognizes “particular”.
About ten written or telephone interviews granted with this formula which comes back when the interviewer becomes too “clingy”.
“We’re going to stop. I don’t have thirty-six thousand things to tell, even if we always have to give more. Everyone always wants more”as she recently declared to our colleagues at… Monde exactly.
So this is why this time we won’t ask for any “plus”…Already very happy that she tolerated us for a few minutes this Thursday in her attempt to respond to the tons of letters coming from all over the planet (read elsewhere), which are hurtling down daily this week to Madrague.
Not to mention the numerous gift packages, donations and wills like that of François, a sixty-year-old who says he has “modified in favor of the Foundation”.
“I am wonderfully supported by the people and I thank them for this extraordinary confidence”she says on this last point.
Most of the missives bear witness to an emotion, an episode in the life of their author – all generations combined – who tells how Brigitte Bardot, through a role, a song, a fight or a rant, marked their existence forever. “For my part, I am happy to be the shepherd of the Star”her husband Bernard d’Ormale modestly gives us a smile as a “gift” declaration.
It’s our turn to join this fanfare of celebrations by wishing a memorable birthday to the one who has so often marked our pages with her animal verve.
And to conclude on the subject of a golden posterity that it will inevitably achieve: “I don’t care if people remember me. What I would like is for people to remember the respect we owe to animals”.
Outings and signings around a living legend
As with every anniversary, the editorial flood dedicated to BB floods into bookstores. Let us first mention the splendid catalog Brigitte Bardot by Ghislain Dussart in connection with its Saint-Tropez exhibition presented in these same columns last July and which ends this Saturday at the Pieters Foundation.
From the cradle to the animal startle, here is Unforgettable BB co-signed by Alain Wodrascka and François Bagnaud (Éditions L’Archipel) and many of whose photos are commented on by Brigitte Bardot herself in her inimitable writing.
The host author, adopted from Grasse, Vincent Perrot teamed up with the distinguished “BBphile” collector Bruno Ricard to Brigitte Bardot – Internationale BB published this September 27 (La Martinière) and prefaced by Brigitte.
The duo will join in the celebrations of this anniversary since they will be at the Scarlett bookstore in Saint-Tropez between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to dedicate the richly illustrated and enriched work, among others, with testimonies from Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francis Huster and letters from admiration of Alain Delon and Daniel Auteuil who says he owes “deviated nose” to the impact against a glass door at ten years old, after having seen, “dazzled”at the cinema Babette goes to war!
The novelist Simonetta Greggio will also be present this Saturday evening in connection with her book published last March, My nights without Bardot, who will be crowned with the 2024 Title Prize at the Hôtel de Paris (reservation required).
A signing session will follow in the same location on Sunday from 10 a.m.
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