Georges Charachidzé was born into the Georgian émigré community of Paris. His father David Sharashidze (French: "Charachidzé"; 1886–1935) was a journalist and a member of the Constituent Assembly of Georgia before being forced to leave his homeland following the Soviet takeover of Georgia in 1921. Sentenced to death by the Soviet government, Charachidzé had moved to Paris, where he had married a young French teacher, who gave birth to Georges Charachidzé in 1930.