The funeral for Brigitte Bardot will likely 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 final Sunday on the age of 91 at her dwelling in southern France.
A ceremony is scheduled on Jan 7 on the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption Catholic Church and will likely 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 “in the strictest privacy” at a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, based on the assertion. The ceremony will likely be adopted by a public homage for followers at a close-by web site.
“Brigitte Bardot will forever be associated with Saint-Tropez, of which she was the most dazzling ambassador,” the assertion mentioned. “Through her presence, personality and aura, she marked the history of our town.”
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, generally known as Mijanou, posted on Facebook a photograph of Brigitte at age 12, accompanied by a message honoring “the one I adored more than anything.”
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 instead be in the love and joy of reuniting with them all.”
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