{"id":342728,"date":"2025-12-30T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342728\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:42:11","slug":"french-right-pushes-for-national-tribute-to-film-star-brigitte-bardot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342728\/","title":{"rendered":"French right pushes for national tribute to film star Brigitte Bardot"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Bardot is destined to remain controversial in death as she was during her life. Faure pointed out that she had been convicted five times for inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n

Bardot starred in some 50 films, after bursting on to the scene in And God Created Woman in 1956. <\/p>\n

She then left the world of cinema in 1973 for a life devoted to animal welfare, and lived for decades in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, at her home called La Madrague.<\/p>\n

But she became as well known for her far-right sympathies as she was for her love of animals. Some of her remarks targeted Muslims, and others insulted the people of the French Indian Ocean island of R\u00e9union.<\/p>\n

“To be moved by the plight of dolphins and yet be indifferent to the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean – what degree of cynicism is that?” asked Green MP Sandrine Rousseau on social media.<\/p>\n

There are differing types of national tribute in France. <\/p>\n

Robert Badinter, who abolished the death penalty in France, was honoured with a national homage in the form of a solemn ceremony in 2024, as was singer Charles Aznavour in 2018. <\/p>\n

A more likely option for Bardot would be along the lines of the public farewell given to rock star Johnny Hallyday<\/a>, when large crowds lined the streets of Paris in 2017.<\/p>\n

Not everyone on the left is opposed to the idea of a national homage to Bardot.<\/p>\n

“Why not? We’ve done it for other figures, particularly Johnny Hallyday,” Socialist MP Philippe Brun told French radio. “If the president of the republic decides on it, I don’t see why we should oppose it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Bardot is destined to remain controversial in death as she was during her life. Faure pointed out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}