Brigitte Bardot comes out with heaps of nonsense, not least of them her occasional declarations of support or sympathy for France's rotten far right.
For once, she has my support when complaining in what has become a stock-in-trade - an angry letter fired off to the mayor - about the "intolerable and violent noise" of warplanes streaking through the skies above Saint-Tropez in preparation for the Free Flight World Masters, an air show held at neigbouring Sainte-Maxime over the weekend.
Her letter to Vincent Morisse, the mayor of Sainte-Maxime, was written while pilots were practising their formations. I suspect her mood was not improved when the show actually took place.
I was in Saint-Tropez on Friday and had the same feeling as impelled her to upbraid M Morisse about the incessant roar and "indecent nostalgia" of a "dress rehearsal for what might happen to us one day, for real". Lots of eyes and cameras pointed skywards but I just found it annoying, while also questioning the wisdom of glorifying an aspect of war so close to recent scenes of utter terror.
M Morisse may be a very nice man, help old people across the road and give generously to the poor. He also joined the collective folly of mayors along the Riviera - not all, but plenty - who thought it a great idea to ban Muslim women from his beaches of they were wearing the burkini.
This, you will recall, is the garment that covers more of the body than a bikini or one-piece but rather less than what the same women may lawfully wear in all other public places (not to mention what nuns would probably get away with wearing even on the sands).
So it was perhaps no great surprise that his response to Mme Bardot was at an intellectual level to which some Trump supporters aspire.
"I understand that Brigitte Bardot, doubtless among others, has no love for our show," he told the Var-Matin, my local paper when in France. "As, undoubtedly, her films couldn't please everyone. But then after all, God Created Woman but God Also Created War."
Where one earth do we start to respond to so profound an argument? He should have satisfied himself with his more reasonable points that the display had been approved by regional government and that he found it normal to pay homage to the French air force.
I expected BB to be an on object of fun, as she is when complaining about mini-cruises that take tourists past her home (and the homes of other fabulously wealthy people in or near Saint-Tropez) or telling us what we can and cannot eat. Down here, sadly, too many people support her Front National leanings to assume she'd also be mocked for that.
But I did overhear a hint of support as a shopkeeper in another nearby resort, Port Grimaud, discussed the day's news with a customer or friend. Between knowing exchanges, correctly based or otherwise, about Mme Bardot's health - "she can hardly walk but won't have surgery because her mother died under anaesthetic" - they agreed she had a point.
It's not enough to get me an invitation to La Madrague - we probably disagree absolutely on the burkini bans, given Marine Le Pen's view that the beaches of France are for "Bardot and Vadim", not semi-covered Muslims, or as he put it "gloomy Belphegors" - but at least we see eye to eye on something.
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