Late screen icon championed freedom above all — a value pro-globalist French establishment doesn't seem to hold

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PARIS — Just days after French screen icon Brigitte Bardot passed away peacefully at the age of 91, I found myself wandering around the Molitor pool, the very place where the bikini she made famous first made its splash in 1946. At the time Bardot strutted it in “Manina, the Girl in the Bikini” (1952) at the tender age of 17, it was considered shockingly daring. Though let’s be honest, most men were probably too busy drooling to object. The real controversy, as it often is with women who demonstrate a propensity for refusing to stay in the box that society builds for them, would come later.

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Everyone adored Bardot as long as she squeezed into the narrow window of femininity that men had built for her. She was the girl next door and the soft-edged starlet. Until she did the unthinkable and insisted on being a fully free woman. One who wouldn’t play by the rules of men,........

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