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Personal possessions of Brigitte Bardot, including ballet flats and diamond rings, are being auctioned on Monday at Drouot sale rooms in Paris. The items, ranging from furniture to kitchen utensils and portraits, come from her homes in Saint-Tropez and Paris. Proceeds will benefit Bardot’s animal charity; the auction features nearly 300 lots with starting prices mostly under €100 but expected to increase significantly during bidding.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-21,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Personal belongings of late French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot fetched nearly €1 million ($1.15 million) at a four-day auction in Paris ending on Monday, surpassing the initial estimate by almost 20 times. Over 285 items, including Repetto ballet flats, diamond rings, straw hats, sunglasses, and furniture from her homes in Saint-Tropez and Paris, were sold to raise money for her animal charity foundation and her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. The auction drew around 15,000 visitors who viewed the items over six days before the sale. Bardot, known as a sex symbol of the 1950s and later an outspoken animal rights activist, died at age 91 in December 2025. Her final husband Bernard d'Ormale, now living in a council flat after being disinherited by her will, criticized the sale for stripping her bare.
Written for “Brigitte Bardot Auction” on 2026-10-05,
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Personal possessions of late actress Brigitte Bardot – from Repetto ballet flats and diamond rings to her copy of the Kama Sutra – are being sold at auction on Monday with proceeds going to her animal charity.
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Fans of the iconic figure, who died last December at the age of 91, have been coming en masse to contemplate the nearly 300 lots on display at the Drouot sale rooms in central Paris.
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The items are from Bardot's two homes in Saint-Tropez as well as her Paris flat, parts of which are recreated in the display.
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"Each item on sale bears the trace of an encounter, an involvement, a moment of happiness, a stage of her life.
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They tell the story of the woman as well as the legend," said her secretary for many years, Frank Guillou.
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Bardot is seen today as one of the most important female personalities of the late 20th century.
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As a model and actress from the 1950s, she became an emblem of modern femininity and the sexual revolution before later taking up the cause of animal rights.
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But later in life she was also criticised for making homophobic slurs and was fined multiple times for inciting racial hatred.
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Monday's auction is a chance to acquire everyday objects that were once her intimate belongings.
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Other highlights include the manual typewriter she used to write her correspondence and autobiography, jewellery, and classical guitars.
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A trained ballerina, Bardot helped popularise the Repetto brand after asking the company to make her a version for everyday use.
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The sale also features a large selection of portraits of the star, some erotic.
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"Brigitte used to say that she didn't want to have to look at her mug all day, so they weren't up on the walls - but she did keep them, either because she knew the artists or because the pictures meant something to her.
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They were all gifts," said Guillou.
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Most lots have starting prices of under €100 (£86), but bidding is expected to push these up considerably, according to Cecile Dupuis of the auction-house Millon, which is running the sale.
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"[The sale] is for all those people who still live with her memory and who keep her cause alive.
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The room will be full of all these fans," she said.
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Many items on sale reveal her adoration of animals, including a large selection of cuddly toys and collars that belonged to her dogs.
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"Brigitte could not live without animals around her.
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When one of them died, she was totally wiped out with grief.
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They were all buried according to a strict protocol in the gardens, and their photographs had pride of place in her homes," said Guillou.
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When she died in December, Bardot's estate was divided between her Foundation and her only son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier - who also benefits from the sale.
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