Service attended by singers, animal rights activists, and public figures including Marine Le Pen
Brigitte Bardot, the film star turned animal rights activist, will be laid to rest in her home town of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday during a funeral attended by her favourite politician, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Bardot died at her La Madrague villa on 28 December aged 91. Her funeral is being held at the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church and broadcast on large screens across the town.
Speaking before the service, her husband, Bernard d’Ormale, said Bardot died of cancer. Without specifying the type of cancer, d’Ormale told Paris Match his wife had dealt “very well” with two operations before the disease “took her” last month.
Bardot shot to international fame in the 1950s and was credited with revolutionising French cinema with films such as And God Created Woman, while defying tradition to become a symbol of sexual liberation.
