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Brigitte Bardot, the French star you 'had to see to believe'

Brigitte Bardot on the set of "Les Femmes". (Getty: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis )

Brigitte Bardot, the doe-eyed beauty whose sensuality brought French cinema to the mainstream, has died aged 91.

Arriving on screen in the 1950s, Bardot swiftly rose to fame as an era-defining "sex kitten".

She starred in films such as And God Created Woman, Contempt and Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin.

Discovered by a magazine editor as a teenager, Bardot also proved a designer's darling.

With her bouffant hair and thick eyeliner, few epitomised French chic like Bardot, who became a muse for the likes of Dior, Balmain and Pierre Cardin.

The name of Brigitte Bardot will live on, for reasons right and wrong

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The name Brigitte Bardot immediately conjures a sort of fetishised notion of femininity, as the actress who burst onto the scene in the mid-1950s teetered on the cusp of girlhood and womanhood, modernity and pre-modernity, emancipated and coquettish.

Bardot, born in Paris in 1932, died in St Tropez, where she had had a home since 1958, on Sunday. She was 91.

Simone de Beauvoir wrote of the then-actress, and later animal rights campaigner, in her 1959 essay Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome, that “she is temperamental, changeable and unpredictable, and though she retains the limpidity of childhood, she has also preserved its mystery. A strange little creature, all in all.”

Massive fortune and properties Brigitte Bardot left behind

The staggering net worth and properties of Brigitte Bardot have been revealed following the news of her death at 91.

The iconic French film star died aged 91 just weeks after undergoing surgery and battling “sudden illness”.

Bardot was at her home in Saint-Tropez when she was suddenly rushed to a hospital in nearby Toulon, The Sun reports.

According to The Mirror, the actress left behind a fortune estimated between $US65 million ($A96 million) and $US100 million ($A150 million), including valuable real estate investments.

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