Hunting: Brigitte Bardot sends a hearing aid to Emmanuel Macron to make herself heard

"I'm going to war. I want the abolition of hunting with hounds. It's a horror (...). The French government absolutely must agree to offer me, after 50 years of unanswered demands, at least this victory," the former film star said in an interview with BFMTV, an extract of which was broadcast Monday morning.

Brigitte Bardot had not spoken in front of a camera for 11 years, and said goodbye to cinema more than 50 years ago.

The former legend of French cinema tells of her idea to send hearing aids to politicians. "The Brigitte Bardot Foundation offers you the means to hear her requests," the box says.

"We have to get the laughers on my side," defended Brigitte Bardot, whose interview, from her home in Saint-Tropez in the Var region, will be broadcast in full on Monday at 9 p.m. The actress, who just celebrated her 90th birthday in the autumn, claims that this is her "last fight."

"We are a battalion of disappointed people."

Hunting with hounds, a practice once favored by the kings of France, involves chasing a wild animal with a pack of dogs. It has approximately 10,000 practitioners in France, where its supporters uphold a tradition more than 600 years old.

In an open letter to the President, the head of government François Bayrou and parliamentarians, sent to AFP, she denounces a "savage and inhumane practice" , and recalls that France "remains (along with Ireland) the last European country to still authorise it".

"It's never too late to do the right thing," she said again, addressing the head of state, whom she met in 2018 and whom she deplores for having "done nothing" either to "abolish hippophagy" (the consumption of horse meat), as she has also been calling for for a long time.

Since 2018, she says she hasn't had any contact with President Macron and is disappointed. "It's not just me. There are a whole battalion of disappointed people."

Two years ago, she sent him a letter in which she "scolded" him for his inaction against animal suffering.