Floral tributes left under Brigitte Bardot statue in Saint Tropez

Fans of late French singer, actor and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot laid flowers under her statue in Saint Tropez following news of her death on Sunday (December 28). 

     The bronze sculpture standing in front of the Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma in Blace Blanqui was inaugurated in 2017 to mark her 83rd birthday. It reportedly depicts the actress as she was in the film "And God Created Woman" from 1956. 

    Actress Brigitte Bardot shot to international fame dancing the mambo barefoot in "And God Created Woman," her tousled hair and fierce energy radiating a sexual magnetism rarely before seen in mainstream cinema.

    Bardot, often referred to in France simply as "B.B." and whose later years were marked by animal rights campaigns and far-right political sympathies, has died at the age of 91, her foundation said on Sunday. The cause was not immediately known.

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