
French President Emmanuel Macron has reacted to the passing of French icon Brigitte Bardot at the age of 91.
"Her films, her voice, her dazzling glory, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne. Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom," Macron wrote in a post.
The French president emphasizes that Brigitte Bardot had a French existence, but also a global brilliance.
"It touched us. We mourn a centuries-old legend ," he concluded.
Brigitte Bardot, the French actress and singer, became an international sex symbol before giving up the film industry to become an animal rights activist.
Bardot gained international fame with the 1956 film "And God Created Woman," written and directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim, and for the next two decades embodied the idea of the "sex kitten."
However, in the early 1970s, she announced her retirement from acting and became increasingly politically active. Her outspoken support for animal rights evolved into an open endorsement of France's far-right National Front, followed by a series of convictions for racial hatred.
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