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“I was born at midnight, pumpkin time”. This little phrase marks his character. He could have told me he was born at midnight, but he references the time. That’s just like Christophe, always giving meaning to what he says. At the time of writing, Christophe Vattier is 47 years old. He was born into a middle-class family in a small village in France, with a sister 13 years his senior.

“My birth, desired by my parents, was experienced as a gift from heaven”. His parents always made him feel it by giving him special attention. It built him up beyond the luck he says he’s always had for a very long time. A sign of destiny? … “I can try anything and I’ll always manage, that’s what I’ve always believed in”. He had an easy, loving childhood, he was loved, and anything was possible for him. We will see later that this had an impact on his choices and probably on the path of life that was his.

For this easy-going boy, his childhood was made of dreams and non-conformism, because he was creative and bored. A technology enthusiast (“I had a computer very early on”), he loved reading, science, and had a wide variety of knowledge (poetry, comics, various authors, the stock exchange) collected in a wide variety of formats (TV, radio, paper, etc.). “When I was six, my favorite show was the 8:00 P.M news and I did my homework in front of the club Dorothée TV series”. He slept little and used his time for all sorts of activities, sports, outings, etc. He was a very active person. “I was the one people wanted to be buddies with because I understood other people’s personalities and I told them what they wanted to hear”.

These are the events that transformed his life in relation to this very easy-going character.