PARIS — Funeral Brigitte Bardot will take place next week in Saint-Tropez, the charming French Riviera resort that she helped make famous and where she lived. for more than half a century– local authorities reported.
movie star and animal rights activist died on Sunday at the age of 91 at her home in the south of France.
The ceremony is scheduled for January 7 at the Catholic Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption and will be broadcast on two large screens installed at the port and in the central Place des Lys square, Saint-Tropez city hall said in a statement on Monday.
According to the statement, the funeral will take place “in the strictest confidence” in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The ceremony will be followed by a public celebration of fans at a nearby venue.
“Brigitte Bardot will forever be associated with Saint-Tropez, of which she was the most important ambassador,” the statement said. “With her presence, personality and aura, she left a mark on the history of our city.”
The film star settled into his Riviera villa, La Madrague, in Saint-Tropez and retired from the film industry in 1973 at the age of 39.
The so-called maritime cemetery, where Bardot's parents are buried, is also the final resting place of other celebrities, including film director Roger Vadim, Bardot's first husband.
Bardot's younger sister, Marie-Jeanne Bardot, known as Mijanou, posted a photo of 12-year-old Brigitte on Facebook, accompanied by a message in honor of “the one I adored more than anything in the world.”
She wrote that Bardo now “knows whether our beloved pets are waiting for us on the other side.
“Let her not be afraid, but instead let her be in love and the joy of being reunited with them all.”
