Piece 20 francs pierre de coubertin biography

• Geographical location: Western Europe
• Current political regime: Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
• Current capital: Paris

Brief history

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A More Private View

Charles Pierre, the son and fourth child of Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (whose family estate was in the Chevreuse valley, not far from the French capital) and Agathe Marie Marcelle Gigault de Crisenoy (who brought to the family Mirville Manor in Normandy), was born on 1st January 1863 at around five o’clock in the evening at number 20, Rue Oudinot, in the seventh arrondissement in Paris.

 

After completing secondary school at the Jesuit-run École libre Saint-Ignace in Rue de Madrid, he obtained an arts Baccalaureatein 1880 and a science Baccalaureate in 1881. Having commenced legal studies, which resulted in a law Baccalaureate in 1885, he also attended lessons from 1882 at the École libre des Sciences Politiques, which made a deep impression on him.

 

Unconventional, in 1887 he was one of the first young people from an aristocratic and royalist background to officially support the French Republican regime. From 1883, his first trips to England defined his future vocation: not the army, not diplomacy, not politics, but education. To reinvigorate and give confidence in the future to a youth traumatised by the disaster of the 1870-1871 war that was lost against Germany, he chose an exceptional path for the time: that of i

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FrancsJeux.com
10/4/2013
Interview with Alain Mercier

In 2013, the Olympic Movement celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pierre de Coubertin. The French Baron who invented the modern Games continues to inspire new generations, but his legacy is little known around the world, especially in the United States. As a preview to the upcoming release of the biography entitled The Idealist, the author, American George Hirthler, an expert consultant in the Olympic Movement, answered some questions for FrancsJeux.

1) Why did you decide to write a book on Coubertin?

Let me give you three reasons to begin with:  1) If you examine the impact of his life, work and ideas on our world today, it is nearly impossible to conclude that he is not one of the most influential and important people born in the 19th Century.  150 years after his birth, his legacy is only growing stronger, reaching deeper and deeper into every nation on our earth, putting sport at the service of humanity everywhere, inspiring millions of children to play every day.  2) Today, we live in a world divided by war, animosities, terrorism, religious and ethnic conflicts.  We lack the international will to form a lasting peace between nations; we cannot find the common ground we need to unite us.