Jacques Charrier

Charrier was born in Metz in 1936. His father, Joseph Jules Léon Charrier, was a career military officer. His mother was Marie Marguerite (née Vullaume) Charrier.^[1]

He first studied pottery at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. After several years, he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.^[1]

In 1980 he returned to the School of Fine Arts, and went back to painting that was full of references to his two passions, travel and antiquity. His art work has been regularly exhibited in Paris, Geneva and San Francisco. With the publication of the memoirs of Brigitte Bardot, he found himself in the media spotlight. He sued for "violation of privacy", and was successful.^[2]

In 1959, he married Brigitte Bardot; they had a son, Nicolas-Jacques (born on January 11, 1960). Nicolas-Jacques himself is the father of two daughters, Anna-Camilla and Théa-Joséphine, born in 1985 and 1990^[3]. Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962. ^[4] In 1964, he married France Louis-Dreyfus, of the Louis-Dreyfus family, with whom he had two daughters, Marie and Sophie ^[5], before divorcing in 1967.^[6] In 1982, he met his third wife Linda with whom he had one daughter.^[6] From 2009 until his death, he was married to Japanese artist Makiko Kumano.^[6]

Charrier died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 88, in Saint-Malo, near where he had lived for 13 years.^[7]