Brigitte Bardot is dead: her last battle, a crusade against Islam... and Morocco

The contrast was striking until the end. On the one hand, the liberator of morals in the 1960s; on the other, the activist of a stale France, obsessed with the "great replacement". In the 1990s, after leaving the film sets, Brigitte Bardot made a radical turn, sealed by her marriage to Bernard d’Ormale, the behind-the-scenes advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen. This was not a coincidence, but a deep ideological convergence, recalls the newspaper Le Monde. As the founder of the National Front wrote, they shared "the nostalgia for a clean France". But where some were content with veiled words, Bardot pushed the limits of the unspeakable, multiplying slips on Islam, fearing a "Maghrebi Marianne" and prophesying that the blood of the Eid al-Adha sheep foretold that of "women and children".

This visceral hostility was again manifested last April, just a few months before her death, during a virulent offensive against the Kingdom. In an open letter addressed to Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, the former actress simply demanded the disqualification of Morocco as the host country for the 2030 World Cup. She accused the country of carrying out a "massive slaughter" of three million stray dogs to "clean up" the streets before the arrival of tourists. Denouncing "abominable practices" and alleged complicity from FIFA, she described scenes of horror - strychnine poisonings, shootings - categorically rejecting the denials from Rabat, which claimed that these practices were no longer in use.

Politically, she never hid her preferences, navigating between the most radical figures of the far right. If she found Jean-Marie Le Pen sometimes excessive, she saw in his daughter Marine a "Joan of Arc of the 21st century" and wove laurels for Eric Zemmour or Vladimir Putin. Although she sometimes solicited left-wing figures solely for the animal cause, her compass invariably pointed to the far right. Brigitte Bardot thus dies as she has lived her last thirty years: in total rupture with "living together", leaving behind a cultural legacy tarnished by a late life marked by intolerance and dubious crusades against entire nations.