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Andrew Pulver, and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91

Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris (Contempt) in 1963.
Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris (Contempt) in 1963. Photograph: Nana Productions/Rex Features

Brigitte Bardot, the French actor and singer who became an international sex symbol before turning her back on the film industry and embracing the cause of animal rights activism and far-right politics, has died aged 91.

Paying tribute to Bardot on Sunday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, wrote on social media that France was mourning “a legend of the century”.

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