{"id":499434,"date":"2026-01-07T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:54:10","slug":"saint-tropez-bids-adieu-to-brigitte-bardot-with-a-funeral-and-public-homage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499434\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-Tropez bids adieu to Brigitte Bardot with a funeral and public homage"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS — Brigitte Bardot’s funeral was being held on Wednesday with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century<\/a> after retiring from movie stardom at the height of her fame.<\/p>\n

The animal rights activist and far-right supporter died Dec. 28 at age 91 at her home in southern France. <\/p>\n

She died from cancer after undergoing two operations, her husband, Bernard d\u2019Ormale, said in an interview with Paris Match magazine released Tuesday evening. \u201cShe was conscious and concerned about the fate of animals until the very end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Residents and admirers applauded the funeral convoy as the coffin of Bardot, once one of the world\u2019s most photographed women and a defining screen siren<\/a> of the 1960s, was being carried through the town’s narrow streets.<\/p>\n

A service started to the sound of Maria Callas’ \u201cAve Maria\u201d at the Notre-Dame-de-l\u2019Assomption Catholic Church in the presence of Bardot’s husband, son and grandchildren, as well as guests invited by the family and the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the protection of animals. <\/p>\n

\u201cSadness is overwhelming, and pain too,” Max Guazzini, a friend and secretary general of the Foundation, said in a speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to dream about her as if we were sleeping. In our dream, Brigitte arrives in a great, white immensity and suddenly \u2026 thousands of seals arrive,” he said. “All the animals she saved and she loved form a procession behind her \u2026 Thousands of animals say: Brigitte, we will miss you, we love you so much, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people gathered in the small town to follow the farewell on large screens set up at the port and on two plazas.<\/p>\n

Bardot is to be buried \u201cin the strictest privacy\u201d at a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. <\/p>\n

She had long called Saint-Tropez her refuge from the celebrity that once made her a household name.<\/p>\n

A public homage was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at a nearby site for admirers of the woman whose image<\/a> once symbolized France\u2019s postwar liberation and sensuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrigitte Bardot will forever be associated with Saint-Tropez, of which she was the most dazzling ambassador,\u201d the town hall said last week. \u201cThrough her presence, personality and aura, she marked the history of our town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bardot settled decades ago in her seaside villa, La Madrague, and retired from filmmaking in 1973 at age 39, during an international career that spanned more than two dozen films. <\/p>\n

She later emerged as an animal rights activist, founding and sustaining a foundation devoted to the protection of animals.<\/p>\n

While she withdrew from the film industry, she remained a highly visible and often controversial public figure through decades of militant animal rights activism and links with far-right politics.<\/p>\n

She will be buried in the so-called marine cemetery, where her parents are also interred. <\/p>\n

The cemetery, overlooking the Mediterranean sea, is also the final resting place of several cultural figures, including filmmaker Roger Vadim, Bardot\u2019s first husband, who directed her breakout film \u201cAnd God Created Woman,\u201d a role that made her a worldwide star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS — Brigitte Bardot’s funeral was being held on Wednesday with a private service and a public homage…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[224240,42339,347,171,14414,57,53,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-499434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-224240","9":"tag-animal-rights","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-funerals-and-memorial-services","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}