As the Summer of Love came to a close, Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg embarked on a brief but passionate affair that would transform their lives. In one brief shining moment they became a modern day incarnation of Bonnie and Clyde— devoted wholly to one another, throwing caution to the wind.
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Bardot was so famous she was known by her initials alone, and over the course of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, had become the reigning sex kitten of the silver screen. No less than celebrated feminist Simone de Beauvoir was infatuated with B.B.’s smoldering presence, inspiring her to pen the 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, declaring this “locomotive of women’s history” the first and most-liberated woman in post-war France.
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After a series of marriages to film director Roger Vadim, who turned her into a star with the 1956 films Naughty Girl, Plucking the Daisy, and And God Created Woman, Bardot married actor Jacques Charrier, father of her only child, and then married Gunter Sachs in 1966 — but soon grew weary of the German millionaire playboy. At 33, B.B. was in her prime and hardly one to deny herself the pleasures of an affair.
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