Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin
- 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, with whom he had four children.
- He was the father of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games.
- 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 for his artistic work.
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