SAINT-TROPEZ, FRANCE:
Nicely-wishers lined the streets of Brigitte Bardot’s hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday for the funeral of the French display icon, as her husband revealed she had died of most cancers at her dwelling on December 28 at age aged 91.
Her wicker coffin was acquired on the steps of the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church by her long-estranged son initially of a conventional Catholic funeral service within the morning. She was buried later within the day at her household’s Mediterranean seaside grave.
A whole bunch of individuals adopted the proceedings on a large display put in on the yacht-lined port of Saint-Tropez — the city the star of ‘And God Created Girl’ helped rework right into a glamorous playground for the rich.
On the televised church service, essentially the most well-known public identities of the reclusive star of the Nineteen Fifties and 60s — New Wave cinema icon, animal-rights campaigner and far-right sympathiser — had been all mirrored.
The son of late movie star Jean-Paul Belmondo attended, alongside far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen and animal activists whose causes Bardot helped publicise by her basis.
Mourners filed previous {a photograph} of Bardot with certainly one of her canine, whereas a widely known picture of her cradling a child seal was positioned close to the pulpit, surrounded by elaborate floral wreaths.
On the eve of the commemorations, Bardot’s fourth husband, former far-right political adviser Bernard d’Ormale, revealed that she had undergone two operations for an unspecified most cancers earlier than the illness “took her”.
After twice being hospitalised in late 2025, Bardot insisted on returning to her villa ‘La Madrague’, regardless of appreciable bodily discomfort, he informed Paris Match in an interview about their life collectively. “She remained aware and anxious concerning the welfare of animals till the very finish.”
D’Ormale was seated within the entrance row on Wednesday alongside Bardot’s solely youngster, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, who attended along with his kids and grandchildren. Now 65, Charrier was raised by his father, movie director Jacques Charrier, and lives in Oslo.
The absence of a state commemoration for certainly one of France’s best-known celebrities, together with the combined response to her demise, displays Bardot’s divisive character and contested legacy. She is broadly thought to be a cinema legend who embodied the revolution of the Sixties by her performing and unapologetically unconventional public persona.
President Emmanuel Macron’s workplace had provided to organise a nationwide homage much like the one held for fellow New Wave star Belmondo in 2021, however the proposal was rejected by Bardot’s household. Macron didn’t attend the funeral however despatched a wreath.
Bardot was buried at a seaside cemetery in Saint-Tropez alongside her dad and mom and grandparents. In 2018, she stated she wished to be buried within the backyard of her dwelling along with her pets, to keep away from what she referred to as a “crowd of idiots” trampling over her household graves.
