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Malraux cannot be accused of that crime of omission. On one occasion, he relates, Brigitte Bardot arrived at an Elysee Palace reception in a hussar-style pajama suit. De Gaulle murmured to Malraux, "What luck, a soldier!" Then to Bardot he said, "What good fortune, madame. You are in uniform and I am in civilian clothes!" Another tale recounts the time the nearsighted general plunged into a crowd without his glasses. "Bonjour, monsieur le curé," he said to one man, apparently taking him for a priest. "But, mon général, I'm your gorille [bodyguard...
...different look. Although she still wears the customary Phrygian hat, her habitually austere visage has been replaced by a generous mouth and her torso by an even more generous cleavage. The face and figure, done in white plaster with bronze patinas, are unmistakably those of Brigitte Bardot...
...sculpting a new Marianne, who has been reconceived a number of times since she was first created in 1848. Says Asian: "All the Mariannes invariably have a Greek profile. It's ridiculous to have a Greek god dess representing the French Republic. Automatically, the image of Brigitte Bardot imposed itself on my spirit. To me she represents femininity and womanhood. She's truly a symbol of France...
...complaining letters, including one that scolded: "You cannot rank the Republic and this person together." Nonetheless, BB's bust is expected to become a priority item in mayors' budgets-after this week's municipal elections are over. In return for lending her figure to France, Bardot has been given one of the busts and has mounted it over...
...courant with the fundamental developments in art, as in everything else. Therefore Russian Ambassador to France M. Valerian Zorin kept his eyes peeled as he moved through the recent opening of the annual "Painters, Witness of Their Times" show in Paris. Going in the opposite direction was Brigitte Bardot-not exactly the living end, but a sculpture by Mougin...