During his teenage years he also established a film club, with his best friend Robert Lachenay. He ended up in reform school, but was rescued in his teenage years by discovering cinema and becoming a devotee he later said, "I feel it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that cinema saved my life." He also loved books, and had a special affection for Balzac.
Truffaut had an unhappy and emotionally neglected childhood, and turned to a life of delinquency, truancy from school (with frequent expulsion), and petty crime. He did not know until his adolescence that Roland was not his real father, and he never met his biological father, who was a Jewish dentist. François was raised by his mother and his adoptive father, both of whom were devout Roman Catholics. The maternal grandparents, Jean and Geneviève de Monferrand, Catholics and of minor nobility, had known of their daughter's pregnancy only for the last three months, and she was sent away to a different neighborhood to have the baby. Twenty months after his birth and two weeks before marrying Janine, Roland Truffaut adopted the young François and gave him his name. Truffaut was a "secret child," born out-of-wedlock in Paris to Janine de Monferrand, a 19-year-old girl at the time. He was extremely well read in the topics he cared about. Truffaut himself was something of an autodidact and a complex, enigmatic, and secretive person, who was nevertheless extremely skilled in getting his way and in getting publicity and attention from others.
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