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Brigitte Bardot to be buried by the sea in Saint-Tropez
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Posted on December 29, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on December 29, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
Brigitte Bardot, iconic French actress, will be buried by the sea in Saint-Tropez. Known for her love of animals, she spent her later years in the resort.
PARIS, Dec 29 (Reuters) - French film icon Brigitte Bardot, who died on Sunday aged 91, will be buried in a cemetery by the sea in the French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez, a spokesperson for the local authority said on Monday, without giving a date.
The actress, who became a symbol of 1950s and 60s France, made her home in the resort where she said she found solace among animals and dedicated her life to their welfare.
"She was lovely, lovely, there's no other word. Yes, we will really miss her," Saint-Tropez resident Philippe Volmier told Reuters on Monday.
Volmier said he had known her for 30 years and used to see her walking her dogs on the beach. "One time, she fell into the water with her dog. I had to pick her out," he added. "She was a friend who helped people a lot."
President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday Bardot embodied "a life of freedom". "A French existence, a universal radiance. She moved us. We mourn a legend of the century," he added.
For much of the latter part of her life, she lived alone behind high walls in the resort, surrounded by a menagerie of cats, dogs and horses.
She told French weekly Paris Match in 2024 that she wanted to be buried in her garden.
The Var Prefecture told Reuters it had not received any request for a private burial, which would have been needed to bury her in her garden.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Elissa Darwish, Mar Leras, editing by Dominique Vidalon and Andrew Heavens)
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