Marine Le Pen will be present at Brigitte Bardot's funeral, according to confirmation from the entourage of the National Rally group leader in the National Assembly. Conversely, the former actress's family has not responded to the Élysée Palace's offer to organize an official tribute.
Upon hearing of Brigitte Bardot's death, Marine Le Pen reacted on the social network X by writing: "Brigitte's passing is a tremendous sorrow." The party's vice-president, Sébastien Chenu, had circulated a photograph showing him embracing the former star at his La Madrague estate, evoking the embodiment of"a certain idea of France".
Long-standing ties with Jean-Marie Le Pen
The ties between Brigitte Bardot and the Le Pen family are long-standing. As early as 1996, in her autobiography Initiales BB, the French film icon, who had become a prominent animal rights activist, painted a laudatory portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen, describing him as "A charming, intelligent man, as rebellious as I am about certain things"She also stated that she shared his views against "The terrifying surge in immigration."
It was in the circle of the founder of the National Front that she met her fourth husband, Bernard d'Ormale, then a political advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen. The couple remained together until the end of the actress's life.
Open support for Marine Le Pen
Several years later, Brigitte Bardot unequivocally expressed her support for Marine Le Pen. In 2012, she publicly called on mayors to endorse the National Rally candidate for the presidential election and announced that she would vote for her. "Admirable woman"As the 2017 election approached, she stated again: "I like Marine Le Pen very much, and have for a long time."
The former actress, who said "against living together"saw in Marine Le Pen a political leader capable of "to take back control of France, to reinstate borders and to give priority to the French people again".
A consistent political vision until the end
Brigitte Bardot, who had portrayed Marianne in the 1960s, claimed "conservative" et "patriot" on the political level. In her ABCs, published in 2025, in which she wrote that the right represented the "The only urgent remedy for France's agony."
