Jacques Natteau

Jacques Natteau
Jacques Natteau behind the camera
Born	Jacques Etienne Chiuminatto 15 November 1920 Istanbul, Turkey
Died	17 April 2007 (aged 86) Lausanne, Switzerland
Occupation	Director of Photography
Nationality	French
Spouse	Genevieve Langevin (1942–53), Yvonne Furneaux (1962–2007)
Children	Catherine Breguet (1943–80) Nicholas Natteau

Catherine Breguet (1943–80)

Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French director of photography born in Istanbul, Turkey. Natteau was married twice, first in 1942 to Geneviève Langevin, with whom he had a daughter, Catherine. The couple divorced in 1953. In 1961, while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo, he met actress Yvonne Furneaux who starred as "Emma" in La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini). They lived between London, Paris, and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers. They were married from 1962 until his death. He had two children: Catherine with Geneviève and Nicholas Natteau with Yvonne.

Catherine and her only child Alexandre were murdered in 1980 by her estranged ex-husband Maxime Breguet who then committed suicide.

Natteau was born on 15 November 1920 in Istanbul, Turkey. His father, Edouard Chiuminatto, was a captain in the French Army who had fought in World War I and was wounded multiple times in the battles of the Somme, Chemin des Dames, and Verdun. After World War I, his father was dispatched to Turkey as part of the Allied occupation force where he met Rosine Foscolo, a direct descendent of the 19th century Italian poet, Ugo Foscolo. Edouard and Rosine married and gave birth to their only child, Jacques Etienne Chiuminatto. Under the terms of the 1919 Versailles Treaty, the defeated Ottoman Empire, as an ally of Imperial Germany, surrendered and was occupied by Anglo-French forces. The French Army seized Turkey's railways and Edouard was put in charge of administering the railway network.