NoI have never known Brigitte Bardot, but we had formed a relationship via fax. It was the 90s, I spent the summers in Paris replacing the de correspondent The Pressand I was desperately trying to write as much as possible. Brigitte always worked. Both because she was well known and loved by the readers of the Piedmontese newspaper – for the Piedmontese of the past, Paris and not Rome was the real capital – and because she loved controversy.
His great passions were animals and France. In the questions I sent her via fax I once tried, with great caution, to ask her the question: love for animals is a noble feeling, but it is a private feeling; our dog, our cat is everything to us, but to the rest of the world it doesn’t represent much; having a living creature that depends entirely on us feeds our ego, our narcissism.
But on that ground Brigitte was not willing to make any concessions: she had been too disappointed by humans, animals were her refuge. He didn’t tolerate them having to suffer, in particular he resented Islamic slaughter by bleeding them to death. And this topic brought her to hers very harsh controversy against Muslim immigration and in general against what he defined as the distortion of his homeland, France.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
In these thirty years the topic has become increasingly topical, so we can conclude that Brigitte was right, even if I honestly never shared her slightly angry, slightly apocalyptic tones.
She was a passionate and precise woman, she cared a lot about her own thoughts, she belonged to a generation that considered newspapers to be important; I still have the handwritten notes he made on the faxes he sent me.
As an actress she was more beautiful than good, but being intelligent she knew it; that’s why he no longer wanted to act. It marked an era, and deserves to be remembered. As Carlo Fruttero said, passions must be condoned, all of them.
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