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French movie fable Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked distant from planetary stardom to go an carnal rights protector, has died aged 91, her instauration said connected Sunday (December 28, 2025).
Tributes to poured infollowing the announcement of her death.
French President Emmanuel Macron
“Her films, her voice, her dazzling fame, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passionateness for animals, her look that became Marianne - Brigitte Bardot embodied a beingness of freedom. A French existence, a cosmopolitan radiance. She moved us. We mourn a fable of the century,” Mr. Macron said successful a post.
Bardot’s look was utilized arsenic the exemplary for an authoritative bust of Marianne, an allegorical pistillate fig who symbolises the values of the French Republic, which was installed successful municipality halls crossed the state from the precocious 1960s onward.
Brigitte Bardot Foundation
“Mrs Brigitte Bardot (was) a world-renowned histrion and singer, who chose to springiness up her prestigious vocation successful bid to give her beingness and vigor to the defence of animals and to her Foundation,” the instauration said.
“The Brigitte Bardot Foundation wishes to honour the representation of an exceptional pistillate who gave everything and gave up everything for a satellite much respectful of animals,” the station read.
French far-right person Jordan Bardella
“The French radical contiguous suffer the Marianne they truthful profoundly loved and whose quality astonished the world. Brigitte Bardot was a pistillate of heart, conviction, and character. A passionate patriot and a person of animals that she protected passim her life, she unsocial embodied an full epoch of French history, and supra all a definite thought of courageousness and freedom,” the person wrote.
French Animal Welfare Society - SPA France
“The SPA pays tribute to Brigitte Bardot, an iconic fig and a passionate advocator for the carnal cause. Since the 1970s, and aboriginal done her instauration created successful the 1980s, she devoted her beingness to defending those who person no voice. Her unwavering committedness helped alteration attitudes and execute large advances successful carnal extortion ... Thank you, B.B., for each that you person accomplished.”
City of Saint-Tropez, Bardot’s longtime location city
“An icon of French cinema and an planetary figure, Brigitte Bardot volition everlastingly beryllium associated with Saint-Tropez, of which she was the astir radiant ambassador. Through her presence, her personality, and her aura, she near her people connected the past of our municipality and helped to marque Saint-Tropez radiance crossed the world,” the metropolis said. “Brigitte Bardot present belongs to the corporate representation of Saint-Tropez, which we indispensable preserve. She volition proceed to inhabit the psyche of our town.”
French histrion Pierre Arditi
“She wasn’t conscionable 1 of the astir beauteous women successful the satellite - she was the astir beauteous pistillate successful the world, and she inactive is, successful fact,” helium said. “She had a courageousness that men inactive don’t reference, and if she cared truthful profoundly astir animals ... it’s astir apt due to the fact that she had been disappointed by men - each men - and I recognize that. We are comparatively disappointing; I tin talk for my ain gender.”
