Well-wishers arrive to lay wreath of flowers and photographs to pay a tribute to late French actress Brigitte Bardot at her grave at the marine cemetery, following the funeral ceremony at Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church, in Saint-Tropez, southeastern France, on January 7, 2026. French film sensation Brigitte Bardot, a symbol of sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s who reinvented herself as an animal rights defender and embraced far-right views, died on December 28, 2025 aged 91. (Photo by Thibaud MORITZ / AFP)