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France says farewell to film star Brigitte Bardot with funeral and public homage in Saint-Tropez

Well-wishers lined the streets of Brigitte Bardot's hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday for the funeral of the French screen icon as her husband revealed she had died from cancer.

Her wicker coffin was welcomed on the steps of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church by her long-estranged son at the start of a traditional Catholic funeral service in the morning.

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