Brigitte Bardot’s possessions up for auction, including her trademark ballet flats and a copy of the Kama Sutra

Items owned by French cultural icon Brigitte Bardot , including her copy of the Kama Sutra and pairs of her famous ballet flats , are going under the hammer in Paris.

The sale will include nearly 300 lots and will be handled by auctioneer Millon at the Hotel Drouot auction house on Monday.

Among the items on offer are a number of portraits of Bardot, as well as personal items such as diamond rings and the typewriter on which she wrote her autobiography.

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Bardot shot to fame in the 1950s and ’60s with performances that tantalized audiences and scandalized moral authorities with raw displays of sexuality, in films such as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt.”

She became a box-office phenomenon in the United States and helped to popularize foreign films with Americans at a time when censorship in Hollywood movies forbade frank discussions of sex, much less nudity.

She then gave up on making movies and carved an unconventional path as a fierce advocate for animal rights, before dying in December 2025 at age 91.

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Proceeds from the auction will benefit the animal rights charity that became her life’s work, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.

“The objects presented are those that she particularly loved because they represented her second life,” Ghyslaine Calmels, general director of the foundation, said in a statement.

“Seeing them all together today is not only a chance to discover an intimate part of her life, it’s also about understanding the absolute commitment of a woman who dedicated her life to giving a voice to those that didn’t have one of their own.”

Auctioneer Alexandre Millon said the auction house had developed a strong relationship with Bardot and her foundation over the course of three decades.

“We are proud to stand under its banner and dedicate our work, our team and our energy to her life’s cause: the defence of animal rights,” he said in the statement.

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While the sale has generated considerable interest, Bardot’s widower Bernard d’Ormale has criticized the auction, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

“These are intimate objects,” d’Ormale said. “Why is this auction being held? For the animals? It’s a joke, the foundation owns properties, they only have to sell one of them.”

CNN’s Lee Smith contributed to this report.

法国文化偶像碧姬·芭铎的遗物，包括她的《爱经》和她著名的芭蕾舞平底鞋，将在巴黎进行拍卖。

此次拍卖将包括近 300 件拍品，并将于周一在德鲁奥酒店拍卖行由拍卖师米隆主持进行。

待售物品包括多幅芭铎的肖像画，以及钻石戒指和她撰写自传时使用的打字机等个人物品。

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芭铎在 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代凭借其在让-吕克·戈达尔的电影《蔑视》等影片中展现的原始性感表演而声名鹊起，这些表演既挑逗了观众，又令道德权威感到震惊。

她在美国成为票房奇迹，并在好莱坞电影审查制度禁止坦率讨论性，更不用说裸露的年代，帮助外国电影在美国流行起来。

随后她放弃了拍电影的梦想，走上了一条非传统的道路，成为动物权利的坚定倡导者，并于 2025 年 12 月去世，享年 91 岁。

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拍卖所得将捐赠给布里吉特·芭铎基金会，该基金会是她毕生致力于动物权利保护的慈善机构。

“展出的物品都是她特别喜爱的，因为它们代表了她的第二人生，”基金会总经理吉斯莱娜·卡尔梅尔斯在一份声明中说。

“今天能见到他们所有人，不仅是一个了解她生活中私密部分的机会，也是一个了解一位女性的绝对奉献精神的机会，她毕生致力于为那些没有发言权的人发声。”

拍卖师亚历山大·米隆表示，在过去的三十年里，拍卖行与芭铎及其基金会建立了牢固的关系。

“我们很荣幸能站在她的旗帜下，将我们的工作、团队和精力奉献给她毕生的事业：捍卫动物权利，”他在声明中说。

法国影星碧姬·芭铎因投身动物权利运动而放弃影坛，享年91岁。

虽然此次拍卖引起了相当大的关注，但据 CNN 附属电视台 BFMTV 报道，芭铎的遗孀伯纳德·德奥尔马莱对此次拍卖提出了批评。

“这些都是非常私密的物品，”德奥尔马莱说。“为什么要举行这场拍卖？为了动物吗？真是个笑话，基金会名下有很多房产，他们只需要卖掉其中一处就行了。”

CNN的李·史密斯对本报道亦有贡献。