Talk about France's rapid decline and civil unraveling from within.
Who does not know Brigitte Bardot, the flaming sex symbol of France and French daring stardom and the vanguard of cutting-edge movies in the early fifties and sixties ?
Those of us baby-boomers once viewed Bardot as our poster girl of French chic.
Not anymore.
If there is a metaphor about the rising vulgarity and banality in Europe, it is what happened in Paris with the uncivil and uncivilized attack by a Frenchman "Team Tibet" protester assaulting a Chinese paralympic female torch bearer in the streets of Paris near Eiffel Tower.
And look at Brigitte Bardot today, old, saggy, and broodingly intolerant and racist. Click on below about the France that is no more. Vive le liberte ! Vive le France Vieux ! Vive Le Chine !
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080417/ap_on_re_eu/france_bardot
