She was a big-time fan of everything expensive and luxurious.
Ah, remember those outrageously long, warm, and fluffy manteaux de fourrure (fur coats) she just couldn’t get enough of?
Well, that, of course, was when she was jeune et belle (young and beautiful)—a bit more than half a century ago.
Later, much later, or, matter of fact, decades later, around the time her beauté started to naturally fade away, and was less prone to be exposed to the glare of the spotlights, she became -possibly for the first time of her life- able to think straight:
She slowly came to the extraordinary realization that before she wore those super expensive, super fluffy coats, they were in fact living animals.
Bingo! Say no more, s’il vous plaît.
That was it.
It was, if you will, like an epiphany.
Madame Bardot had found her new calling, her new chemin de Damas (“road to Damascus.”)
She was to return to the glowing spotlights, only d’ores et avant (from now on), she would do so as a VIP animal activist, with her very own VIP Foundation (which, of course, would feature nothing else but her glamorous name.)
And that she did, with the launching of her Fondation Brigitte-Bardot, in the “très chic“ Saint-Tropez, as early as 1986 (she was only 52-years old at that time.)
Madame Brigitte Bardot: Before she came to realize the importance of setting caged animals free (and where fluffy fur coats "really" came from)
Let us now open up une petite parenthèse (a small parenthesis), which will once again lead us straight back to the “French Madame.“
Monsieur Pinault Junior, happy husband of Hollywood Star Salma Hayek, and heir to one of the wealthiest families of France
Only yesterday, we brought up the case of Józef Glemp, the high-profiled Polish Cardinal who had un rêve (a dream) for quite a long time, but was seemingly too busy to fulfil it: He has lately been forced to issue a formal apology for the litany of harsh statements he leveled throughout the past years against people of the Jewish faith, and even more so against the Holocaust, mainly as a result of a rather costly lawsuit filled against him by Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz… (Not too lucky with legal battles either, Madame Bardot has been fined by French courts for “incitation à la haine raciale“, or “inciting racial hatred.” But, to her credit, that has so far happened only five times.)
In order to make his cherished dream come true, namely the erection of the Temple of Divine Providence in the vicinity of the Polish capital -a construction project already initiated more than 200 years ago by the last King of Poland, but somehow never brought to completion!- the controversial Cardinal naturally called upon the services of the Polish subsidiary of a quasi-”French Godzilla Inc.“: Monsieur Pinault‘s “Warbud.”
Not surprisingly, Warbud and its sister company Eurovia are among the lucky few subcontractors retained to prepare the ground for the UEFA Euro 2012 football competition, held this Summer in Poland and Ukraine.
Just like its parent Vinci, a flagship company in the orbit of Monsieur Pinault’s financial empire, Warbud builds just about everything. From les stades (stadiums) which will be hosting the European competition games, including the climactic final in Kiev, to the new autoroutes (highways) and parking garages crucial to the success of an event of such magnitude.
To this day, the official website of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation remains oddly silent: Ahead of the UEFA Euro 2012 Competition, a mad anti-stray dogs campaign is ruthlessly unleashed upon Ukraine. "Mobile crematoriums" are deployed on the Ukranian streets to chase any dog roaming without an owner: "Find them, Kill them, Burn Them On the Spot"!
It remains unclear at this point whether or not, in preparation for the European Championship, Warbud is directly involved in the nasty Holocaust campaign targeting stray dogs roaming the streets of Ukrainian cities (“find them-kill them-burn them on the spot” is how the bloody campaign has been labeled.)
It is at least curious, however, to examine the reaction of Madame Brigitte Bardot, who, it must be noted here, is a friend of long standing of the Pinault family.
Madame Bardot has been fined for “incitation à la haine raciale“ (“inciting racial hatred.”) But, luckily, that was only for five times
Not one to be tight-lipped in general (no pun really intended), the VIP French lady has been over the past extremely vocal over all matters pertaining to la cruauté envers les animaux (animal cruelty), especially before, during, and after the celebration of the Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, thus earning her the praise of French extreme right-wing figures Jean-Marie le Pen and his daughter, the 2012 Presidential hopeful Marine le Pen.
Her ex-husband Gunther Sachs, (above): Grandson of the Opel car dynasty founder, and son of an SS officer whom Gunther reportedly felt compelled to emulate last year in a "copycat (shotgun) suicide"
The Fondation Brigitte Bardot: Turning its back to the ongoing Holocaust of stray dogs in Ukraine on the altar of the UEFA Euro 2012
It seems that, tout à coup (all of a sudden), for whatever mysterious, unfathomable reason, Madame Bardot, and the people working in her namesake Fondation (a proud recipient of Monsieur Pinault‘s generous funding, who had in the past graciously put his wholly-owned Marigny Theater at the Foundation’s disposal to celebrate its 20th birthday), all have lost the use of their tongues, reduced to some very small, low-key, and almost private condamnations of what is taking place in Ukraine.
Only one “pro forma” letter, consisting of a few small paragraphs, has been reportedly addressed by the Foundation to the Ukrainian President. But even that one letter, or anything referencing the ongoing animal killings in Ukraine, has not been mentioned on its frequently-updated official website—Not even in petits caractères (fine prints)!
One would think that the atrocious and systematic killings of thousands of animals at once on the altar of the UEFA Football Championship would spark the fury of the woman who turned, over the past years, into the French High Priestess of Animal rights, and would provide her Foundation with a golden opportunity to speak out loud.
Oui… you would think that, mais NON…
Or “ні” (pronounced like the English word “knee”), as the brave Ukrainian activists who are currently fighting against the animal cleansing on their streets would put it.
Has the French Grande Prêtresse (High Priestess) of Animal rights turned into a Grande Traitresse (High Traitor) of those same poor animals she pretended to defend?
Is it out of collusion with M. Pinault, the powerful owner of GUCCI, Yves-Saint-Laurent, and other fashionably luxurious products she once couldn’t get enough of, who is also an owner of Eurovia and Warbud, two companies which are making a “killing” in astronomical amounts of profit after being selected to prepare the ground for the UEFA Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland?
One can not tell for sure for now, but it is nevertheless un silence plutôt éloquent et qui en dit long (an eloquent, telling silence), of course.
Intended collusion or not, to this day (January 19th, 2012), Madame Bardot, who was awarded the 2007 “Free Thinker Prize” for the protection of animals and nature in Ukraine, and her Fondation Brigitte-Bardot do not utter a single word about the months-long UEFA animal cruelty scandal in Ukraine anywhere on its official website (CLICK HERE)!
Et si l’on rejouait toutes les scènes
Et ce trafic qui nous amène
