But the real appeal of the setting was something more enduring. In those early days there would be costume parties and gypsy dances in the sand. Bardot brought in water, gas, electricity, and her fiancé of the moment. The property, shrouded in bamboo and lavender and pine, had been owned by an old woman, and the main building was unprepossessing-part boathouse, part fisherman’s shack. Tropez opened his office on a Sunday in order to close the deal. She had left the set of The Woman and the Puppet and come down for the weekend on the Blue Train the only notary in St. It wasn’t my goal.”īrigitte Bardot bought La Madrague in 1958. Much more persuasive was what she said about her life and her career: “If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn’t part of what I wanted to do. When I visited her there recently, she sipped champagne in the salon and made an offhand reference to her “faded beauty.” The sentiment was sincere, though the reality was frankly unconvincing. Tropez, which she has owned for more than 50 years, and she guards her privacy zealously and devotes her energies to animal rights. She lives at La Madrague, a secluded property in St. Because she suffers from arthritis and other ailments, she sometimes uses a cane an operation would help, but she fears the anesthesia. She wears her hair in a large bun, like a crown, and styles the hair herself. She is 77 years old and dresses always in black-black blouse and black jeans, never a skirt, never a dress.
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