Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Birth: 3 December 1930
Ethnicity: English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Scottish, Swiss-French, Swiss-German
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is the son of Odile Marie (Monod) and Paul Jean Édouard Godard. He was married to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky.
Jean-Luc’s paternal grandfather was Georges Godard (the son of Joseph Godard and Jacquette Fournier). Joseph was the son of Joseph Godard and Jeanne Cadier. Jacquette was the daughter of Lazare Fournier and Antoinette Darrot.
Jean-Luc’s paternal grandmother was Louise Rose Émilie Baeschlin (the daughter of Édouard Baeschlin and Rosine Normand). Édouard was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, to Jacques Baeschlin and Émélie Welter. Rosine was the daughter of Alfred Normand and Rose Bouchez.
Jean-Luc’s maternal grandfather was Julien Pierre Monod (the son of André John William Honyman Monod and Marie Vallette). André was the son of Adolphe Louis Frédéric Théodore Monod and English immigrant Hannah Honyman, of London. Marie was born in Naples, Italy, to Swiss-French immigrant Jean Vallette, of Chêne-Bougeries, Canton of Geneva, and of German immigrant Nanette Charlotte Pauline Appia, of Hanau, Hessen.
Jean-Luc’s maternal grandmother was Cécile Julia Naville (the daughter of Pyrame Frédéric Naville and Élisabeth Jeanne Lachaise). Pyrame was born in Vernier, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, to Jean Louis Naville and English immigrant Anne Todd, of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Élisabeth was the daughter of Alexandre Lachaise and Pierrette Singou.
Jean-Luc’s first cousin is the President-elect of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Source: Genealogies of Jean-Luc Godard – https://www.geni.com/people/Jean-Luc-Godard/6000000021384896660 & http://gw.geneanet.org/elsa2002?lang=en&p=jean%2Bluc&n=godard&oc=0
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