{"id":12271,"date":"2026-01-09T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/the-legacy-of-brigitte-bardot-she-wasnt-an-actress-she-was-a-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:50:28","slug":"the-legacy-of-brigitte-bardot-she-wasnt-an-actress-she-was-a-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/the-legacy-of-brigitte-bardot-she-wasnt-an-actress-she-was-a-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of Brigitte Bardot: &#039;She wasn&#039;t an actress, she was a phenomenon&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/803fc60a-e3d5-11f0-bb12-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000-896E2NT.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Brigitte Bardot, who died at the age of 91 on Sunday, lived a life\u00a0filled with contradiction and controversy, but became a global icon first and foremost through film. RFI spoke to critic and historian Antoine de Baecque about her legacy in cinema and beyond.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260103-the-legacy-of-brigitte-bardot-she-wasn-t-an-actress-she-was-a-phenomenon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigitte Bardot, who died at the age of 91 on Sunday, lived a life\u00a0filled with contradiction and controversy, but became a global&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}