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Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91
Brigitte Bardot retired in 1973 after nearly 50 films and later founded a foundation that helped ban seal fur and ivory imports in Europe.
- French media reported that Brigitte Bardot, French actor and screen legend, has died aged 91 after being hospitalized last month; no funeral or memorial arrangements have been announced.
- Her film stardom began in 1956 with And God Created Woman, but Bardot quit cinema in 1973 and retired to Saint-Tropez, French Riviera, at age 39.
- Starring in 47 films, Bardot became a global cultural figure with box-office hits and her tousled blond hair, tiny waist and pout made her one of France's best-known stars.
- She founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986 to protect animals and sold memorabilia to fund it, but Bardot faced five convictions in French courts for inciting racial hatred.
- Her image came to embody 1960s sexual freedom and social change, with And God Created Woman influencing New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut while her death removes a figure who shaped fashion, cinema and sexuality debates.
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Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 91. Émilie Giaime, teacher of conferences in history, explains why the superstar embodied a model of "powerful woman" in the Corsican France of the Thirty Glorious. Before seeing her image damaged by her support for the far right and her racist statements.
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A legendary French actress died today at the age of 91.
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