bardot
a personal
biography by glenys roberts
pages 36/37
`i didn`t know a
lot of children because my mother wanted me only to meet a
certain kind of child - of a certain class and educated to a
certain standard. i remember worrying a lot about that. i was shy
and when these well-behaved children came round with their
correct parents i was absolutely terrified. i was so terrified i
used to get eczma. `later she would get spots.
`in paris, in
that class many parents were strict,` she recalls. `but mine were
stricter than most. they wanted me to become a very
well-educated, cultured and i think, rather boring girl.` despite
all the fussing over apperances brigette was lonely. her sibling,
who arrived five years later, was too young to share and compare
any of the stages of childhood with her. the sibling, moreover,
was the wrong sex - another girl, a competitor not a friend. when
the time came she didn`t even go to the same school.
brigette also
felt that mijanou was unfairly singled out for special treatment
as the younger child. one day when her parents were out and the
maid was looking in the opposite direction brigette, who was
seven at the time and playing cowboys and indians with her
two-year-old sister, pulled the tablecloth from under her
mother`s favourite vase which went crashing to the floor and
shattered into pieces. the scene which followed is etched
painfully in her memory. there was a terrible gallic row followed
by several cuffs around the ear. `we children were then banished
from the family circle. that is to say we were told to address
our parents formally as vous, not tu from then on, because we
weren`t worthy to be their children. i was also given fifty
whacks of the cane - i was often caned - naturally the baby
got less.
`i took it very
badly indeed. i couldn`t get it out of my mind. i didn`t feel i
belonged there after that. it just wasn`t my home anymore. i
vowed then and there that i would one day have a home of my own
and know one would tell me what to do in it. of course, i now
have several. i have often thought that incident accounted a lot
for my future lifestyle, wanting to be at home wherever i was, to
have a choice of home but to be totally in control of my
environment.`
the real
brigitte bardot
tv documentary
irene frain, journalist.
she and her sister were playing under a table which was
covered by a cloth......
as a result of this game they broke a chinese pot their
mother was very fond of.....
they were both severely spanked.....