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Jun 2022
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11 - Christophe Rocancourt, the star - L...

STUDIO MINUIT
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He is not one of the swindlers who have made the most money, but Christophe Rocancourt has to become a media personality with trivialized offences. He lived a difficult childhood, with a complicated family situation and an abandonment in an orphanage at only nine years old. It is there that he began his first flights. As a teenager, he left for Paris, where he lived without money and made meetings that opened the world of the night to him. From this time, he gets out of it thanks to his charisma and his ability to lie.

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