Canadian-US environmental, conservation and animal rights activist Paul Watson (L) arrives at Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church, for the funeral ceremony for late French actress Brigitte Bardot, 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 Decmber 28, 2025 aged 91. (Photo by Thibaud MORITZ / AFP)