Brigitte Bardot, the world-famous film star and tireless animal rights activist who passed away on December 28 at the age of 92, will be buried tomorrow at the Saint-Tropez cemetery in a modest ceremony without national honors.
Brigitte Bardot will be buried in the tomb where her parents rest, and as previously reported by French media, her wish was that there would be no national honors and that therefore no officials or French President Emmanuel Macron would be expected at the funeral.
The former actress had previously expressed her desire to be buried on her estate near Saint-Tropez, where she had retired in recent decades, dedicating her life entirely to animal rights, but it was decided that it would be at the so-called maritime cemetery where her parents are buried and which offers a great view of the Mediterranean Sea, which she loved.
The actress herself, who in 1985 refused to accept the highest award of the Legion of Honor from then-Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, once said that her mission was to fight for animal rights and added that her only national honor was for everyone to hear what she had to say about it, not a tribute at a funeral, where "a bunch of idiots could come."
It was known that the famous Brigitte Bardot had no qualms about her language, and after her film career was cut short at its peak, she did not hesitate to publicly send letters to French presidents, officials, and other politicians around the world, fighting against hunting, bullfighting, and animal rights in general.
On the day of her death, French media reported that she had passed away as "an icon of femininity in the 1950s and 1960s, a film actress, singer, muse of great artists and advocate of animal rights."
She was undoubtedly one of the biggest French and international stars of the mid-20th century, an icon of a generation and a symbol of women's emancipation and sexual freedom.
Brigitte Bardot, known as BB, when she was 40 and practically at the peak of her career, rejected her status in cinema, left the jet set and filmmaking to become a passionate animal rights activist.
Her foundation is dedicated to protecting all endangered animals, without exception.
Her closeness to the far right and the Le Pen family has also caused controversy. Her political and social views have also caused great controversy.
Even in her later years, she was in good health, saying that the reason was that she had been a vegetarian almost her entire life and that she had rejected the fashionable world.
She starred in films by great directors such as Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, to whom she was married, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini.
Her best-known films are "The Parisian Woman" (1957), "And God Created Woman" (1956), "Don Juan Was a Woman" (1974) by Rozze Vadim, "Private Life" (1962) and "Viva Maria!" (1965) by Louis Malle, and "Contempt" (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard.
She was married four times, and has a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, who lives in Norway with his family, but with whom she did not have a close relationship.
The media speculates that her foundation will be the largest heir because during BB's lifetime she invested money in animal rights, while her son will receive a more modest share.
While stories circulate that she had great wealth, some believe that her material wealth is not that significant, because in recent decades, far from the film spotlight, she has lived much more modestly, donating money to improve the work of the foundation and to fight for animal rights.
See more:
Download the app and follow the news
FOLLOW US ON
