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is what you or your brother? "
To this question, Igor replies:
"Well, you can see that it is not me, but my brother!"
This surreal exchange with a stranger at the Saint-Ouen flea market sums up, in itself, the joyous disturbance aroused by the most famous twinning of the small screen. Born forty minutes apart at the end of the summer of 1949, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff have never separated for more than a month, during the 72 years of their extravagant existence. Fusional and very different at the same time, they perished six days apart, believing themselves to be invulnerable, together. When, in December, Igor realizes that he has Covid, he is as outraged.
"The twins thought they were out of reach of this lousy virus, they who had come from the big bang"
, underlines Jean-Paul Enthoven, their friend and editor since 1975.
“It is too collective a virus for them,
adds the ex-wife of Igor, Amélie de Bourbon-Parme.
They were so unique. ”
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