Who is frigide barjot

The court found that the couple received rent from a company called Jalons, set up by Tellenne, also known as Basil de Koch, to publish humorous journals.

The couple have four months to leave their two-storey home, which consists of two apartments knocked together, thanks to a ban on evictions during the winter but must also pay 1, euros to the council. The case was started last June when Barjot, whose real name is Virginie Merle, was the spokesperson for massive demonstrations against the Socialist government's bill to legalise same-sex marriage. She later fell out with other leaders of the Manif pour tous movement. Communist city councillor Ian Brossat, who tipped off the housing department about the case, hailed the decision.

Barjot owns a four-room Paris apartment that she inherited from her mother, another in the city's 15th arrondissement that she inherited from her father, a holiday home near Saint Tropez on the riviera, a house at Trouville-sur-Mer on the Channel coast, three cellars in Paris and a garage, according to Le Parisien newspaper.

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For this interview she was wearing jeans and a leather jacket and, beneath that, a pink sheepskin jacket emblazoned with the logo of her movement. For Barjot, this was remarkably conservative. Her usual style of dress is that of an ageing Barbie doll. Her unconventional look, her previous career, and her past friendships with gay men and women, have long made Barjot a figure of suspicion on the far right.

Paradoxically, her flaky, witty, cheerful presence also gave the movement a kind of respectability which has seen tens of thousands of ordinary, conservative, middle class people, young and old, to flock to the mass demonstrations against gay marriage since December. How can a man who claims to represent traditional values, and Christian values, commit suicide in a cathedral? I entered this movement to rescue the family, not to lose my own skin and have my own family torn apart.

Barjot is separated from her husband. They have two teenage children. Her apartment and campaign headquarters, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is a jumble of flags, leaflets, clothes, documents, newspaper cuttings, books, flowers, a crucifix. Barjot has argued for five months that people can oppose gay marriage without being anti-gay. She argues that the newly enacted law should be amended by a future right-wing government to give gays an improved right to civil union, but not adoption rights.