This Saturday, June 10, 2023, Léa Salamé presented a new issue of What an era!, on France 2, surrounded by its usual columnists, but also by guests in the media spotlight. Entertainment talk show, the program is also a meeting place for debates on political or societal news in which Roselyne Bachelot, former Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development, former Minister of Health and Sports, former Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion, former Minister of Culture and now permanent member of Big heads alongside Laurent Ruquier on RTL. The politician came to present the book of interviews written by the journalist Arnaud Wajdzik in which she evokes her professional career in a world of men. Aymeric Caron was also there as a deputy for LFI as well as the star host of TF1, Nikos Aliagas. Recognized photographer, he spoke about his passion for black and white shots and his next exhibition, in Normandy, The Spleen of Ulysses, which brings together some sixty portraits taken during his travels and human encounters. The writer Amélie de Bourbon-Parme was also present at this round table, who came to talk about Ambitionfirst volume of the trilogy The Traders of Eternity, published on June 8 in the Blanche collection by Gallimard editions. A romantic and intimate portrait of Alessandro Farnese, a young provincial aristocrat destined to become Pope.
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“It was impossible to imagine them without each other”
But at the turn of the conversation, impossible not to approach the personal life of the aristocrat who was the wife of Igor Bogdanoff for 20 years. Léa Salamé unveiled images of their wedding celebrated with great fanfare at the Château de Chambord, images watched with a twinge of heart by the writer who had two children, Alexandre and Constantin, with the famous co-presenter of Time Xdisappeared on January 3, 2022, at the age of 72. A week after his twin brother, Grichka. And the writer assures us, until the end, the brothers “formed an indestructible pair”. “It wasn’t even worth trying anything.” she explained even though “It isolated them it made them almost inaccessible to certain things”. “He sometimes said that you were jealous of his brother”, raises Léa Salamé. “Maybe the brother was jealous too”, Christopher intervenes. “Maybe he was jealous too,” concludes Amélie de Bourbon-Parme. “Basically it was allowed in a family there is always a competitor, a mother-in-law, a brother, a sister. she explains.
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The journalist then returns to the disappearance of the most famous twins in France, deceased from Covid, and who had decided not to be vaccinated. And Igor’s widow confided: “It was impossible to imagine them without each other and indeed when these tragic events took place many people have written to us saying ‘The only thing that makes us happy is that they are still together and thatthey keep talking about the universe up there.‘”
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