It’s hard not to associate Brigitte Bardot with Saint-Tropez and La Madrague, the little house in the Baie des Canoubiers which she inherited from her mother. This piece of paradise nestled in the south of France is not really the one she knew when she moved in. Over the years, Brigitte Bardot increasingly suffers from the increasingly intrusive behavior of vacationers and fans who are curious and excited at the idea of getting closer to their idol. This is why Brigitte Bardot prefers to flee while there is still time.
Every early summer, she therefore avoids being targeted by tourists as much as possible and escapes to the other end of the “village”, in her bread haven of Capon, La Garrigue, “an unpretentious maisonette offering the calm that she does not find in Les Canebiers.” Her round trips, Brigitte Bardot does them, not alone but very well accompanied. In addition to her faithful animals, she can count on the presence of Bernard d’Ormale, “his companion” and husband of thirty years, who “joins her driving a metallic gray Suzuki Jimmy” Phone “a serving knight“as the Sunday newspaper in its edition of October 30, 2022.
Their romantic routine is well established. At the stroke of 6 p.m., “she goes back home, escorted by her husband“: “On the left, the sea sparkles like a pointillist painting. They arrive together at the gate. […] They come back for sunset. Every day, a sumptuous spectacle.”
Brigitte Bardot and Bernard d’Ormale take advantage of the quietness of the low season to savor the tranquility that remains to them, far from the work and the time that the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, in which the couple is very involved, takes from them every day. The ex-star of cinema will put all her energy, and this until the end, in the protection of animals which, as she puts it so well, “have a purity that Man has definitively lost.“With the exception of Bernard, no doubt.