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Biography of André Nocquet, the First Foreign Live-in Student of Morihei Ueshiba
Youth in France and discovery of martial arts
André Auguste Nocquet was born on 30 July 1914 in Prahecq, in the Deux-Sèvres department of France. He was raised in a family of pig breeders who taught him to appreciate the value of simple things.
- The Nocquet family house in Prahec.
It is in Niort, a dozen kilometers from the family farm, that he began his studies, before moving on to the National School of Non-Commissioned Officers (ENSOA) in Saint-Maixent. In 1929, while at Saint-Maxent, he got the opportunity to learn a new and intriguing empty-handed defense system with Chief warrant officer Raffier. Raffier had indeed acquired some knowledge of jujutsu, a rather confidential martial art from Japan, and only a handful of Westerners knew about it due to the fact that at the time, Japan was under a fairly strict isolationist policy. This experience left a strong impression on the young Nocquet and it gave him the desire to learn more about this remote country and its awesome warfare techniques.
The young André’s passion for effort and body culture is partly explained by a desire to compensate for his relatively small stature. Already naturally stocky, he pushed early on his own physical
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I have known the name André Nocquet for almost as long as I have known about aikido. Indeed, the picture of him standing in front of an old Japanese man was the first thing I saw when I entered the dojo of Michel Desroches, my first teacher. As it happened, I started my practice of aikido in André Nocquet’s federation and consequently, I was told many fantastic stories about his life and pioneering journey to Japan to study with the founder. As a young boy, it made a strong impression on me and I often dreamed about following in his footsteps and study in Japan with the masters. As I started my work as an aikido historian, I took the opportunity during my various interviews and projects to gather as much information as I could about Nocquet. I published a number of elements in my articles, and eventually was able to write a biography, which was published in Japanese in a recent issue of Hiden.
André Nocquet and O Sensei in Iwama. This is the picture that was in my first teacher’s office.
My efforts were also noticed by a number of people, including some of the closest students of Nocquet, Messrs Frank De Craene and Claude Duchesne. They asked to meet with me and to my surprise, chose me to become their successor as custodian of Nocquet’s personal belongings,