Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin

Who was Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin?

Charles Louis de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin 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.