Mass began around 3:00 p.m. at the Madeleine church, where Johnny Hallyday’s funeral took place in December 2017. On the mass booklet, a photo of the twins, with this sentence attributed to them: “in the universe nothing is impossible! “.
The singer Francis Lalanne, who became the voice of the antivax and arrived without a mask, the writer Raphaël Enthoven, the former minister Luc Ferry, were among the relatives who came to say goodbye to Igor and Grichka, the most famous twins of French television , notably known for their science fiction show Temps X on TF1.
The two identical hearses, bringing the two light oak coffins side by side, gathered at the Church of the Madeleine, in Paris, relatives and hundreds of people on Monday, to tell the Bogdanov brothers, who died of the Covid at six days in between, a last farewell.
The ceremony that brought together the relatives of the twins, including Igor’s 6 children. In the religious building, his two daughters, Sasha and Anna-Claria, gave a totally poignant speech to salute the memory of their father. They notably recounted the hospitalization of Igor Bogdanov, including “the time in the waiting room, pacing the corridors, with hospital alarms, bodies connected to machines …” last breath of the deceased: “We held your hand there before the big departure. Your departure was as poetic and unexpected as your life”, declared the daughters of Igor Bogdanov.
During this last farewell, Alexander, also spoke some heartbreaking words to the attention of his father and his uncle. “Lord, I entrust to you my daddy as well as Grichka”, thus declared the young boy of 10 years. At his side, his mother, Amélie de Bourbon-Parme, ex-wife of Igor Bogdanov, spoke: “You had an open table at the Ministry of National Education, where your friend Luc Ferry welcomes you. ‘re no longer there, but forever alive in our hearts. Wanceslas, born from his relationship with Ludmilla d’Oultremont, for his part sang a song. And on the booklet installed in the religious building, a photo of the twins, with this sentence: “In the universe nothing is impossible!” A final reference to their scientific research.
The twins should rest in Saint-Lary in the Gers, their village of birth. Grichka and Igor Bogdanov should be buried in private.
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