Editing Jean-Luc Godard (section)

== Early life ==
Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Moullet |first=Luc |editor=Jim Hillier |title=Jean-Luc Godard |encyclopedia=Cahiers du cinéma: 1960–1968. New Wave, New Cinema, Re-evaluating Hollywood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mm9pgpYLA70C&pg=PA35|volume=2 |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |location=Milton Park, Oxford, UK |isbn=0-415-15106-6 |pages=35–48}}</ref> in the [[7th arrondissement of Paris]],{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=4}} the son of Odile (''née'' Monod) and Paul Godard, a Swiss physician.{{sfn|Morrey|2005|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kby7RaRmTt4C&pg=PA1 p. 1]}} His wealthy parents came from [[French Protestant|Protestant]] families of Franco–Swiss descent, and his mother was the daughter of Julien Monod, a founder of the [[Banque Paribas]]. She was the great-granddaughter of theologian [[Adolphe Monod]]. Other relatives on his mother's side include composer [[Jacques-Louis Monod]], naturalist [[Théodore Monod]] and pastor [[Frédéric Monod]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pg/Jean_Luc_Godard.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226215837/http://www.adherents.com/people/pg/Jean_Luc_Godard.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=26 December 2005 |title=The religion of director Jean-Luc Godard |publisher=Adherents.com |access-date=29 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ordiecole.com/cinema/godard_monod.html |title=Jean Monod (1765–1836), pasteur |publisher=Ordiecole.com |access-date=29 December 2011 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195034/http://www.ordiecole.com/cinema/godard_monod.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On his father's side, he is a first cousin of former Prime Minister and later President of Peru [[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 1903 |title=Madeleine Louise Kuczynski |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Madeleine-Kuczynski/6000000026145920407 |access-date=15 July 2023 |website=geni_family_tree |language=en-US |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715200921/https://www.geni.com/people/Madeleine-Kuczynski/6000000026145920407 |url-status=live }}</ref> Four years after Jean-Luc's birth, his father moved the family to Switzerland. At the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], Godard was in France, and returned to Switzerland with difficulty.{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=5}} He spent most of the war in Switzerland, although his family made clandestine trips to his grandfather's estate on the French side of [[Lake Geneva]]. Godard attended school in [[Nyon]], Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fortune.com/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-dies-91-french-new-wave-director/ |title=Legendary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91 |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |last=Rascouet |first=Angelina |date=13 September 2022 |accessdate=15 September 2022 |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914130617/https://fortune.com/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-dies-91-french-new-wave-director/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=NYTObit/>

Not a frequent film-goer, he attributed his introduction to cinema to a reading of [[André Malraux]]'s essay ''Outline of a Psychology of Cinema'' and the ''La Revue du cinéma'', which was relaunched in 1946.{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=6}} In 1946, he went to study at the [[Lycée Buffon]] in Paris and, through family connections, mixed with members of its cultural elite. He lodged with the writer [[Jean Schlumberger (writer)|Jean Schlumberger]]. Having failed his [[baccalauréat]] exam in 1948, he returned to Switzerland. He studied in [[Lausanne]] and lived with his parents, whose marriage was breaking up. He spent time in Geneva also with a group that included another film fanatic, Roland Tolmatchoff, and the extreme rightist philosopher Jean Parvulesco. His elder sister Rachel encouraged him to paint, which he did, in an abstract style. After time spent at a boarding school in [[Thonon]] to prepare for the retest, which he passed, he returned to Paris in 1949.{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=7}} He registered for a certificate in [[anthropology]] at the [[University of Paris]] (Sorbonne), but did not attend class.{{sfn|MacCabe|2005|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FwLqbp0cEp8C&pg=PA37 p. 36]}}