She is desperate to help the Free French, who end up parachuting her back into the country on a mission to thwart the German invasion of England.

Bardot had meant to make a film in Hollywood called Paris by Night with Frank Sinatra and Roger Vadim but did not want to go to America.

Producer Raoul Levy came up with another idea, a film about a young girl who becomes involved with the Resistance called Babette Goes to War.

[1] It was the fourth most popular film at the French box office in 1959, after The Cow and I, Sleeping Beauty and The Green Mare.

(It was followed by Some Like It Hot, The Four Hundred Blows, The Magnificent Tramp, North by Northwest, Solomon and Sheba and Black Orpheus.