Crowds lined the streets of Saint-Tropez for the funeral of French film legend Brigitte Bardot on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Some of those gathered were seen applauding as her coffin was driven through the French Riviera town after a service in a local church.<\/p>\n
Among the guests at the service were far-right politician Marine le Pen and Equality Minister Aurore Berg\u00e9, who like Bardot, is a defender of animal rights. The actress was later buried at a hillside cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
Bardot, who revolutionised 1950s French cinema and became a symbol of sexual liberation, died of cancer aged 91 three days after Christmas.<\/p>\n
Bardot had left instructions that her funeral be conducted without fanfare or ostentation – but the people of Saint-Tropez wanted to pay her a proper adieu on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Screens were set up in the small fishing town that was transformed by Bardot’s fame into a playground for the jet set.<\/p>\n
Bardot’s only son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier was among those carrying the coffin to the cemetery where the actress’ parents and first husband Roger Vadim are buried. <\/p>\n
After her death, French President Emmanuel Macron said the nation was mourning “a legend of the century”, while the Brigitte Bardot Foundation remembered her as a “world-renowned actress”. <\/p>\n
The cinema icon – “BB” as she was known in her home country – acted in almost 50 films, including And God Created Woman, but retired in 1973 to devote her life to animal welfare.<\/p>\n
Later in life, Bardot’s reputation was damaged after she made homophobic slurs and was fined multiple times for inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n
Her right-wing views alienated her from many in the political establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowds lined the streets of Saint-Tropez for the funeral of French film legend Brigitte Bardot on Wednesday. Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-233280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}