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Save de Beauvoir, Simone - Brigitte Bardot and the Loli... For Later The world’s most outrageously sensual film
star is the subject of a study by France's
leading female intellect. Mile. de Beauvoir
analyses the appeal of Bardot in connection
with the ideal of modern woman which
towards the Lolita child-woman symbol
‘The distinguished French sociologist . . .
has written a fascinating treatise’—
THE PEOPLE
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BRIGITTE BARDOT
AND THE LOLITA SYNDROME.
by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
On New Year's Eve, Brigitte Bardot
appeared on French television. She was
got up as usual—blue jeans, sweater and
shock of tousled hair. Lounging on a sofa,
she plucked at a guitar. ‘That’s not hard,”
the women. ‘I could do just as well.
She’s not even pretty. She has the face of a
housemaid.’ The men couldn’t keep from
devouring her with their eyes, but they too
snickered. Only two or three of us, among
thirty or so spectators, thought her charm-
ing. Then she did an excellent classical
dance number. ‘She can dance’, the others
admitted grudgingly. Once again I could
observe that Brigitte Bardot was disliked in
her own country.
When And God Created Woman was
shown in first-run houses on the Champs-
Elysées, the film, which had cost a hundred
and forty million franes, brought in less
than sixty. Receipts in the U.S.A. have
come to $4,000,000, the equivalent of the
wale of 2,500 Dauphines. BB now deserves
to be considered an export product as
important as Renault automobiles.
She is the new idol of American youth,
