Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1822–1908) was a
French aristocrat
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and
painter
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. He married a woman from
Normandy
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, Agathe Marie Marcelle Gigault de Crisenoy, with whom he had four children. He was the father of
, founder of the modern
Olympic Games
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.
He has been called "a mediocre if fashionable academic painter",
and a "somewhat gifted painter of religious and historical subjects".
[ In 1865 he received the ]Légion d'Honneur
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for his artistic work.[
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1822 births
1908 deaths
Barons of France
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male artists