{"id":14093,"date":"2026-08-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiensoitout.com\/nos-plus-belles-annees-french\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:58:55","slug":"nos-plus-belles-annees-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiensoitout.com\/en\/nos-plus-belles-annees-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Nos Plus Belles Ann\u00e9es (French)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my earliest entrepreneurial experiences was as a writer. Flashback: 10 years ago in France. I had been writing since childhood, but it was not until I was 14 that a teacher encouraged me to open myself to the world with a first book. It was called &#8220;Le r\u00eave d&#8217;Alex&#8221; (Alex&#8217;s Dream). That was my first real experience with sales, and more than 50 publishing houses rejected me between the ages of 14 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to that experience, I knew I had what it takes to achieve big things: I refused to quit. Of course, receiving more than 50 rejections hits the ego hard, but in the end I learned something essential: I can do better. At 16, after those two years, I had learned a lot, I had stronger stories, and I was sure I could create something great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sponsored*<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Nos Plus Belles Ann\u00e9es<\/h2>\n<p>I started writing that book at 16. Like every teenager, I felt emotionally lost among my dreams, the limits of my environment, my family, the usual adolescent struggles, my future, school, and more. Yet every problem carries a lesson. So I decided to build a fiction story that could show the different lessons I had learned, hoping it might help other teenagers. For me, touching even one life was the most incredible thing I could do.<\/p>\n<p>It took me two years to write it. After a few more rejections from several publishers, I finally received acceptance letters with contract offers. I signed with Edilivre, a publisher in Paris. Today it is still available as an <a href=\"https:\/\/damiensoitout.com\/producto\/nos-plus-belles-annees-e-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E-Book here<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edilivre.com\/nos-plus-belles-annees-soitout-damien.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">print here<\/a>. You can also find it on sites like Amazon. It is sold in French only, since it is not a masterpiece and translating it was not worth the investment. 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