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PARIS – Brigitte Bardot’s funeral will be held next week in Saint-Tropez, the glamorous French Riviera resort she helped make famous and where she lived for more than half a century, local authorities said.
The movie star and animal rights activist died at his home in southern France on Sunday at the age of 91.
A ceremony is scheduled for January 7 at the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption Catholic Church and will be broadcast on two large screens set up on the port and the Place des Lyces central square, Saint-Tropez town hall said in a statement on Monday.
The funeral will be held “in strict privacy” in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, according to the statement. The ceremony will be followed by a public tribute for fans at a nearby venue.
“Brigitte Bardot will always be associated with Saint-Tropez, whose brightest ambassador she was,” the statement said. “Through his presence, personality and aura, he marked the history of our city.”
The film star settled in her 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 Bardot’s first husband, filmmaker Roger Vadim.
Bardot’s younger sister, Marie-Jeanne Bardot, known as Mizanou, posted a photo of Brigitte at the age of 12 on Facebook, accompanied by a message “Honoring the one I loved more than anything.”
He wrote that Bardot now knows if our beloved pets are waiting for us on the other side.
“Don’t let him be afraid, and instead let him live in the love and joy of reuniting with them all.”
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