Achilles Cichinelli was Sicilian, the father of Ines Valda Cichinelli — the French Resistance survivor who later married Dr. John Lazare Jeannopoulos. He left the family after Ines’s mother Amelda Menouti died in her thirties from a heart ailment.
His name surfaced in May 2026 through testimony from his granddaughter Aline (John and Ines’s daughter); little else is known about him. His own father — Ines’s paternal grandfather — was named Demetri Cichinelli.
The first name “Achilles” recurs by coincidence on his daughter’s husband’s side too: Ines’s husband John Lazare had a brother also named Achilles Jeannopoulos (who Anglicized to Alfred A. Johnson). The two Achilleses were unrelated; the name simply landed on both sides of Aline’s family tree.