Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1822–1908) was a Frencharistocrat and painter. He married a woman from Normandy, Agathe Marie Marcelle Gigault de Crisenoy,[1] with whom he had four children. He was the father of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games.[2] He has been called "a mediocre if fashionable academic painter",[3] and a "somewhat gifted painter of religious and historical subjects".[2] In 1865 he received the Légion d'Honneur for his artistic work.[2]
^Guttmann, Allen (2002). The Olympics: a history of the modern games. University of Illinois Press. p. 7. ISBN9780252070464.
^ abcStanton, Richard (2001). The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions. Trafford. p. 280. ISBN9781552126066.
^Weber, Eugen (1991). My France: Politics, Culture, Myth. Harvard University Press. p. 208. ISBN9780674595767.
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