Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte AnneMarie Bardot is a French actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials, B.B.

Bardot was born in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot and AnneMarie Toty Bardot . Louis had an engineering degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot, in the family business. Louis and AnneMarie married in 1933. Bardot grew up in an upper middleclass Roman Catholic observant home. When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer, a private school. She went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourgets dance studio three days a week. Brigittes mother also enrolled Brigittes younger sister, MarieJeanne , in dance. MarieJeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, whereas Brigitte concentrated on ballet. In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron. The other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot Bichette .

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