Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930, in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. His father, Paul Godard, a Swiss doctor, moved the family to Switzerland four years later. His mother, Odile Monod, was from a wealthy protestant French background. Her father, Julien Monod, was one of the most prominent bankers in France, and a well-connected figure in literary circles, whose closest friend.