Jean-Luc Godard Biographical Timeline from 1930-1970 1930 - Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from an preeminent family of Swiss bankers. 1940 - Godard became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland and attended the school in Lyons. 1948 - Godard's parents ...