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Article: Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France?(The Week ...)(Brief article)
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- June 30, 2008
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Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France? Think of her in And God Created Woman. Once she decided to make no more movies, her transformation into angry matriarch was a bit of a shock. First she took up animal rights, and then she began to protest about Muslim immigration. You have to be very careful what you say on that topic in France, and Bardot has been convicted several times for inciting racial hatred. She is, it seems, a fan of the far-right Front National, which until its recent change used to be openly anti-Muslim. In December 2006, her two causes came together. Bardot wrote a letter to Nicolas ...