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“At a very young age, I challenged my parents”. Curious about everything, all the time, Christophe was not the last to want to participate in conversations with his adult relatives. And as a result, discussions could turn into arguments. “It was a bit hard for my beloved parents”, admits Christophe, as he has always had this irrepressible urge for a drum-beat exchange. “I found that my parents didn’t understand all the things I understood about things, news, etc.” This invariably created arguments and friction. Were Christophe’s parents the first “guinea pigs” for this child who was always quick to show the limits of a certain conformism? In any case, this has developed his ability to grasp opinions that differ from his own and his dialectics.

The teenager was already largely alone in deciding what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. It was this initial conviction that meant he was granted everything, making Christophe say, “I sometimes behaved like a little idiot with my family and it was really not right”. The teenager just needed a wider field, freedom to move forward in life and find himself. Was it to test “his luck”?