PARIS — The funeral for Brigitte Bardot might be held subsequent week in Saint-Tropez, the glamorous French Riviera resort she helped make well-known and the place she lived for greater than a half-century, native authorities mentioned.
The cinema star and animal rights activist died Sunday on the age of 91 at her residence in southern France.
A ceremony is scheduled on Jan. 7 on the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption Catholic Church and might be broadcast on two giant screens arrange on the port and on the Place des Lices central sq., Saint-Tropez city corridor mentioned in a press release Monday.
The burial will then happen “within the strictest privateness” at a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, in accordance with the assertion. The ceremony might be adopted by a public homage for followers at a close-by website.
“Brigitte Bardot will perpetually be related to Saint-Tropez, of which she was essentially the most dazzling ambassador,” the assertion mentioned. “By her presence, persona and aura, she marked the historical past of our city.”
The film star settled in her Riviera villa, La Madrague, in Saint-Tropez and retired from the movie trade in 1973 at age 39.
The so-called marine cemetery, the place Bardot’s mother and father are buried, can be the ultimate resting place of different celebrities, together with filmmaker Roger Vadim, Bardot’s first husband.
Bardot’s youthful sister, Marie-Jeanne Bardot, often known as Mijanou, posted on Fb a photograph of Brigitte at age 12, accompanied by a message honoring “the one I adored greater than something.”
She wrote that Bardot now “is aware of whether or not our beloved pets are ready for us on the opposite facet.
“Let her not be afraid, and let her as a substitute be within the love and pleasure of reuniting with all of them.”
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