Introduction
Frigide Barjot (pun on Brigitte Bardot) born Virginie Merle, born September 25, 1962, in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French humorist, columnist and political activist.She has become prominent for her campaigns against same-sex marriage in France and LGBT adoption.
Biography
Born to a music teacher and a clinic-owner in Lyon, Jacques Merle, Virgine Merle studied Law at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 and at Sciences Po before joining the public relations office of the French gaullist political party Rally for the Republic (RPR). She married Bruno Tellenne, alias Basile de Koch, Karl Zero's brother, a political speech-writer, most notably for Charles Pasqua. Together, they founded an organisation called Jalons which specialised in comedy happenings and pastiches of national magazines and newspapers. In 2013, she organised demonstrations in Paris against gay marriage and became a prominent campaigner against France's same-sex marriage law. She serves as the spokeswoman for Manif pour Tous.
Music and cinema
- Member of the band Dead Pompidou's.
- 2006, Make love to me with two fingers imitating Brigitte Bardot.
- Fabien Onteniente: 3 zéros (2002) and People (2004).