What a lovely mix! Greek and Jewish?! I did think the name sounded a bit Eastern.
From wikipedia:
Attal was born on 16 March 1989 in
Clamart,
Île-de-France. He grew up in the
13th and
14th arrondissements (districts) of Paris with three sisters. His father,
Yves Attal [
fr], was a lawyer and film producer of half
Tunisian Jewishdescent (on the paternal side) and half
Alsatian Jewish descent (on the maternal side). Attal's mother, Marie de Couriss, was of French and Greek-Russian ancestry, and worked as an employee of a film production company.
[2][3]Attal was raised in his mother's religion of
Orthodox Christianity.
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