PARIS — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman idolized as a sultry sex kitten into a militant animal rights crusader. Bardot, who died Sunday at age 91, was just 22 when she rocketed to international fame with the 1956 film sensation “And God Created Woman,” a cinematic ode to her hourglass figure, sultry pout, and tousled blond mane. Bardot would spend another decade and a half in the limelight — and among the paparazzi’s preferred […]... Keep on reading: Brigitte Bardot identified with the animals she later set out to save