[3] At a demonstration in Paris on 13 May 1968, de Bendern was photographed on the shoulders of her friend Jean-Jacques Lebel waving a Vietnamese flag.
The photograph taken by Jean-Pierre Rey [fr] at place Edmond Rostand, near the Luxembourg gardens, appeared in Life[4] and Paris Match.
[5][6] Caroline de Bendern appears in a number of films made by the Zanzibar Group of radical French filmmakers, including Serge Bard [fr] and Olivier Mosset, which was active from 1968 to 1970.
[10] The group included the saxophonist Barney Wilen, de Bendern's future husband.
[12] Caroline de Bendern was the partner of musician Jacques Thollot [fr], who died in 2014.