encyclopedia QUOTE Sarkozy is a Frenchman of mixed national and ethnic ancestry. He is the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa , ( Hungarian : nagybócsai Sárközy Pál ;....... and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (b. Paris , 12 October 1925), who is of French Catholic and Ottoman - Sephardic