Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930[REF] in the 7th arrondissement of Paris,[REF] the son of Odile (née Monod) and Paul Godard, a Swiss physician.
Not a frequent cinema-goer, he attributed his introduction to cinema to a reading of Malraux's essay Outline of a Psychology of Cinema, and his reading of La Revue du cinéma, which was relaunched in 1946 [REF].