Joseph Damiani, a.k.a Jos?Giovanni, was born on June 22th, 1923, to a Corsican family. He did many little jobs when he was a teenager. Washing dishes in a train-restaurant, lumberjack, coal miner, waiter in a hotel restaurant of Chamonix. During WWII, from 1942 to 1944, he was a high mountain junior guide, and was in the resistance, too.After the war, he came to Paris and became (with some other members of his family) a petty gangster. But after a robbery where his older brother and his uncl ...[Read Story]