Frigide Barjot
Virginie Tellenne better known by her alias Frigide Barjot, is a French humorist, columnist and political activist. A former socialite of the Parisian nightlife, who organized events defending the Catholic faith in the 2000s, Barjot rose to prominence in the early 2010s in France as a vocal campaigner against same-sex marriage 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. 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 :fr:La Manif pour tous|Manif pour Tous.Music and cinema
