Pierre de Coubertin: sport and ideology in the Third Republic, 1870–1914

H. L. Wesseling

European Review, 2000, vol. 8, issue 2, 167-171

Abstract: Organized sport was first developed in Germany in the form of the so-called Turnvereine, and in England at the public schools. It came to France later, at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite this, the modern Olympic Games was a French invention, the result of the ambitions and efforts of an aristocratic admirer of England, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. His ideas and attitudes were in many ways characteristic of fin-de-siècle France.

Date: 2000
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