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December 26, 2017
Brigitte Bardot, pictured in 1974, has long fought for animal rights and will release a book next month (AFP Photo) |
Paris (AFP)
- French screen icon Brigitte Bardot will next month publish a book on her
decades-long campaign for animal rights, she told AFP on Tuesday, taking a
swipe at President Emmanuel Macron on the issue.
The 83-year-old
star of "And God Created Woman" said the book, titled "Larmes de
Combat" (Tears of Combat), will come out on January 25.
It will be
"the record of my existence, of my fight on behalf of animals and the deep
expression of my disgust".
"It
will be the full record of my view of things, of society, of the way we are
governed, of the way we treat animals in my country," said Bardot, known
in France by her initials "BB".
She said
she was "fed up" with what she called Macron's lack of support for
animal rights.
"This
government has got off to a very bad start," Bardot said. "Macron has
no compassion for animals and nature."
Bardot
slammed the 40-year-old president for holidaying with his family this month at
Chambord, a hunting chateau in the Loire Valley.
"He
congratulated hunters in front of their game while it was still warm," she
said by telephone from Saint-Tropez. "It's scandalous and very
inappropriate."
Bardot's
publisher, Plon, described the upcoming book as "an original reflection,
both calm and outraged at the same time, on her existence and the meaning of
her fight."
The 1956
film "And God Created Woman", directed by Bardot's first husband
Roger Vadim, propelled her to stardom but she retired less than two decades
later, in 1973, when she was 39.
Bardot
withdrew to a secluded home on the outskirts of Saint-Tropez on the Riviera.
Crusading
against bullfights, hunting, and all forms of cruelty to animals, she is rarely
seen in public except to press home her campaigns.
The former
actress will publish an open letter in the Paris daily Le Parisien on Wednesday
as her Brigitte Bardot Foundation launches its latest campaign against fur.
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