Funeral held for French movie and style icon Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot's ceremonial is being held with a backstage work successful Saint-Tropez.

The French movie and benignant icon died connected 28 December astatine the property of 91 astatine her location successful the French Riviera resort, wherever she lived for much than fractional a century.

Her husband, Bernard d'Ormale, revealed successful an interrogation with Paris Match mag that she had died from crab aft undergoing 2 operations.

Crowds person gathered on the streets to spot the precocious movie star's coffin arriving astatine the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Catholic Church.

The work is being attended by household and guests, which see French far-right person Marine Le Pen, who was pictured arriving astatine the service.

Guests besides included radical invited to the ceremonial by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the extortion of animals.

In his interrogation released connected Tuesday evening, her hubby said the movie fable had been "conscious and acrophobic astir the destiny of animals until the precise end".

Bardot's renowned enactment awesome presumption was acceptable successful chromatic successful 1956 with her portrayal of a rebellious teen successful And God Created Woman.

Directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim and successful enactment with the intersexual liberation of the age, the movie featured Bardot dancing bare connected tables, captivating audiences and scandalising censors successful adjacent measure.

She became a planetary icon and starred successful much than 40 films.

But she turned distant from nationalist beingness successful 1973, aged 39, and gave her attraction to carnal rights, calling it her "only battle".