 His great-great-grandfather Adolphe Monod was a noted pastor and theologian.His father Pierre Monod was a noted surgeon.His cousins include the naturalist Théodore Monod; the industrialist-politician Jérôme Monod; Jacques Lucien Monod, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist; the pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine; and the French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard.