He was born in La Madeleine, north of Lille, in 1908. At the end of the First World War his family moved to Paris. It was then that Jeanne discovered her gifts for gymnastics and music. She received piano lessons and trained as a gymnast at Madame Poppart's academy. In 1924 she was selected to participate in the Olympics where she would obtain a bronze medal. A year later she met what would be the love of her life, Luis Buñuel. After several years of dating, they married in Paris in 1934. In 1939 they left France for the United States where they would reside, between Los Angeles and New York, until 1945, the year in which they settled permanently in Mexico. The Buñuel couple had two children: Juan Luis (Paris, 1934) and Rafael (New York, 1940). After the death of Luis Buñuel in 1983 Jeanne considered writing her memoirs, but the loss of vision she suffered made the project difficult. In 1990 it became a reality through the writer Marisol Martín del Campo who transcribed them. Jeanne Rucar died in Mexico City in 1994 at the age of 86.