Dogs will be allowed on one of the normally tightly controlled beaches in Cannes that was renamed Monday after late film legend-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot.
Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch and town mayor David Lisnard led a ceremony on the beach in the shadow of the Majestic hotel where Bardot regularly stayed when she was still making movies.
Tributes have been paid to Brigitte Bardot all along the French Riviera since the film icon died in December. © Miguel Medina, AFP
Bardot died at her St Tropez home in December aged 91 and French Riviera resorts have since paid a number of tributes.
Cannes renamed its Mace beach after the film star.
The town hall said that dogs will be allowed on the beach, which is close to the Palais des Festivals where the film extravanza is held, at set times each day.
Nice, along the coast, has also named a beach after Bardot and opened it up to dogs in a gesture to the late star.
While she withdrew from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot remained a highly visible and often controversial public figure through decades of militant animal rights activism and links with far-right politics.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and AP)
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