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Brigitte Bardot, France’s first celebrity Marianne, died at 91 — Static01.nyt.com

Brigitte Bardot, France’s first celebrity Marianne, died at 91

Brigitte Bardot, the French film star long regarded as an emblem of France, died on Sunday at age 91. In 1969 she was selected as the first celebrity face for Marianne, the personification of the French republic. Marianne has historically been depicted as a classical-style goddess—slim, young, beautiful and

Brigitte Bardot: film star, animal advocate and convicted for racial hatred — I.guim.co.uk

Brigitte Bardot: film star, animal advocate and convicted for racial hatred

Brigitte Bardot, the French actor who became an international sex symbol and later an animal rights campaigner, died on 28 December at the age of 91. Bardot rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s — notably in the 1956 film And God Created Woman — and became an enduring cultural image,