Crowds lined the streets of Saint-Tropez for the funeral of French film legend Brigitte Bardot on Wednesday.
Some of those gathered were seen applauding as his coffin was driven through the French Riviera town after a service at a local church.
Among the guests at the service were far-right politician Marine le Pen and Equality Minister Aurore Bergé, who, like Bardot, is a defender of animal rights. The actress was later buried in a hillside cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean.
Bardot, who revolutionized 1950s French cinema and became a symbol of sexual freedom, died of cancer at the age of 91 three days after Christmas.
Bardot left instructions that her funeral be held without pomp or fanfare – but the people of Saint-Tropez want to give her a proper adieu on Wednesday.
The screens are set in a small fishing town that Bardot’s fame transformed into a playground for the jet set.
Bardot’s only son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was one of the pallbearers at the cemetery where the parents and first husband of the actress, Roger Vadim, were buried.
After her death, French President Emmanuel Macron said the country was mourning “a legend of the century”, while the Brigitte Bardot Foundation remembered her as a “world-renowned artist”.
The cinema icon – “BB” as he is known in his homeland – acted in almost 50 films, including And God Created Woman, but retired in 1973 to devote his life to animal welfare.
Later in life, Bardot’s reputation was tarnished after she made homophobic slurs and was fined several times for inciting racial hatred.
His right-wing views alienated him from much of the political establishment.