Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.

Brigitte BardotIn May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

In late-1967, he had a short but ardent love affair with Brigitte Bardot to whom he dedicated the song and album Initials BB.

In 1968 he had a supporting role in an Anglo-American film co-production, the Edward Dmytryk western Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.

He once said he felt too nervous around women, and resisted actresses Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot, who had tried to seduce him during his youth.

During this production, she and Roger Vadim, who had just divorced Brigitte Bardot in December 1957, fell in love and married on 17 June 1958.

The latter especially after it had been translated into French by Sacha Distel ( French singer and sometime boyfriend of Brigitte Bardot ).

Bardot now had more control over their music and image.

In December 1969, de Redé had his most famous ball, the Bal Oriental, with guests like Jacqueline de Ribes, Guy de Rothschild, Salvador Dalí, Brigitte Bardot, Dolores Guinness, and Margrethe II of Denmark.

The dress had celebrity appeal, as a similar dress had been worn by Brigitte Bardot.

It was based on an idea that Rohmer had in the 1950s, originally intended for Brigette Bardot.

However, by the late-1950s, roles for Carol had become fewer, due to the introductory of newcomer Brigitte Bardot.

At the beginning of the Eighties, recovering from cancer of the throat, which had been diagnosed in 1979, he sold 80 % of his label to Polygram, and retired to Saint-Tropez, where he had spent 25 years building a house since Brigitte Bardot persuaded him to buy land there in the late 1950s.

Although unconfirmed, Babette claimed that she was a distant relative of Brigitte Bardot and had once modeled for Pablo Picasso while in her late teens.

Birkin had heard the Bardot version and thought it " so hot.

" There was media speculation, as with the Bardot version, that they had recorded live sex, to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, " Thank goodness it wasn't, otherwise I hope it would have been a long-playing record.

This was the case with Maurice Chevalier, who had them in his ownership in Marnes-la-Coquette, and Brigitte Bardot.

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes ; the following year, he re-recorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin, which became a massive hit all over Europe.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.

Gilmore told Paris Match: " I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things in any depth whatsoever.

In the 1970s, Bardot lived with sculptor Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures.

The prosecutor stated that she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

This was one of his traits as a filmmaker-showing off his budget-as he did with Brigitte Bardot in Le Mepris ( Contempt ).

Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.

The social and commercial appeal of his later work ( such as a 1959 portrait of Brigitte Bardot with her hair tousled, in a little black dress ) did not match the artistic promise or the bohemian eroticism of his earlier years.

After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria !.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

After her retirement, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist.

( One of her classmates was Leslie Caron ; fellow ballerinas nicknamed Bardot: Bichette Doe ).

Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled, but it made her consider becoming an actress.

British photographer Cornel Lucas made iconic images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.

In 1973, before her 39th birthday, Bardot announced her retirement.

On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (" Pluto's Square "), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

In fashion, the Bardot neckline ( a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders ) is named after her.

Bardot is recognized for popularizing bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina ( Woman without a Veil, 1952 ), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots.

Bardot also brought into fashion the choucroute (" Sauerkraut ") hairstyle ( a sort of beehive hair style ) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.