Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1822–1908) was a French aristocrat 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]
Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1822–1908) was a French aristocrat 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]