Brigitte Bardot met Jacques Charrier circa 1958 while filming “Babette Goes to War” in Paris, sparking a romance that led to marriage in 1959. On January 11, 1960, their son Nicholas was born, photographed at home in Paris, though Bardot later expressed ambivalence about motherhood. By 1962, the marriage collapsed, and Charrier gained custody, raising Nicholas with his second wife, France Louis-Dreyfus. Bardot and Charrier remained on cordial terms despite the painful split. Charrier, also an ac

"Brigitte Bardot and her second husband, French actor Jacques Charrier, were photographed in 1960 at their Paris home with their newborn son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, born on January 11 of that year. Bardot, already an international icon by then following the success of And God Created Woman (1956), was navigating both immense fame and the challenges of young motherhood under intense media scrutiny. Her marriage to Charrier, which began in June 1959, was highly publicized in France, symbolizing