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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.

Notes

1. Guttmann, Allen (2002). The Olympics: a history of the modern games. University of Illinois Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780252070464.
2. ^ Stanton, Richard (2001). The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions. Trafford. p. 280. ISBN 9781552126066.
3. Weber, Eugen (1991). My France: Politics, Culture, Myth. Harvard University Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780674595767.

• 1822 births
• 1908 deaths
• French barons
• 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