page_title: Family history of Nicolas Sarkozy
section_title: Pál Sárközy
hierarchical_section_title: Family history of Nicolas Sarkozy / Pál Sárközy
caption_attribution_description: English: Pal Sarkozy, Brive la Gaillarde book fair, France, 2010 11 06Français&#160;: Pal Sarkozy à la foire du livre 2010 de Brive la Gaillarde, France, 2010 11 06
context_page_description: 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, a Hungarian nobleman, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah, 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.
context_section_description: Pál Sárközy was born on 5 May 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lesser Hungarian nobility. His paternal ancestor was elevated to the untitled nobility of Hungary on 10 September 1628 for his role in fighting the armies of the Ottoman Empire. The family possessed 285 hectares (700 acres) of land (reduced from an estate of 400–800 ha (990–1,980 acres) in the 18th century), and a small castle in the village of Alattyán, near Szolnok, 92 km (57 mi) east of Budapest.  Pál Sárközy's father and grandfather held elective offices in the city of Szolnok. Although the Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (nagybócsai Sárközy) family was Protestant, Pál Sárközy's mother, Katalin Tóth de Csáford (Hungarian: csáfordi Tóth Katalin), grandmother of Nicolas Sarkozy, belonged to a Catholic noble family.
  As the Red Army entered Hungary in 1944, the Sárközy family fled to Germany. They returned in 1945 but all their possessions had been seized. Pál Sárközy's father died soon afterwards and his mother, fearing that he would be drafted into the Hungarian People's Army or sent to Serbia, urged him to leave the country and promised she would eventually follow him to Paris. Pál Sárközy fled to Austria and then Germany while his mother reported to authorities that he had drowned in Lake Balaton.
caption: Pál Sárközy at the 2010 Brive-la-Gaillarde book fair
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