French politicians are deeply divided over how - or whether - to honour Brigitte Bardot, following her death as the screen legend's later-life politics proved as controversial as her films were influential.
Bardot died on Sunday aged 91 at her home in Saint-Tropez on the southern Mediterranean coast. News of her demise prompted an outpouring of tributes, celebrating a woman who became a symbol of French culture, sexual liberation and cinematic glamour, through films such as And God Created Woman, Le Mépris and The Night Heaven Fell.
