Overview
- The Saint-Tropez town hall told AFP that Bardot will be interred at the cimetière marin facing the Mediterranean, where her parents are buried, with no ceremony date announced.
- Bardot died on Sunday at the age of 91.
- She had repeatedly expressed a desire to be buried at her La Madrague home, including in her 2018 testament-book Larmes de combat, but that option was not pursued.
- French law permits private-property burials only exceptionally and requires a prefect’s authorization that can be granted solely after death.
- For coffin burials, authorities seek an opinion from an approved hydrogeologist to the regional health agency and the site must meet distance and location rules, with such approvals remaining rare despite precedents like Alain Delon and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.