Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy is of mixed national and ethnic ancestry. He is the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál [ˈnɒɟboːt͡ʃɒi ˈʃaːrkøzi ˈpaːl], in some sources Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ernő), a Hungarian nobleman, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (Paris, 12 October 1925–13 December, 2017), who is of Greek Jewish and French Catholic origin. They were married at Saint-François-de-Sales, Paris XVII, on 8 February 1950 and divorced in 1959.
