July 26, 2026

Born on October 20, 1936 in Castelliri (Italy), eighth-dan René “Natch” Nazaret passed away during the night of July 25 to 26, 2026. He was eighty-nine years old. Almost exactly twenty years ago, on July 25 and 27, 2006, we spent two full afternoons at his apartment in Lyon’s seventh arrondissement retracing – with his