A photograph taken on January 5, 2026 shows messages, pictures and flowers bouquets laid at a makeshift memorial in tribute of late French actress Brigitte Bardot, on the Place Blanqui, in Saint-Tropez, southeastern France. Cinema icon Brigitte Bardot's funeral will take place on January 7, 2026 in her hometown of Saint-Tropez. The 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 Valery HACHE / AFP)