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,[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.

Departure ceremony at the Paris Foreign Missions Society . Le Départ , 1868, by Charles Louis de Frédy de Coubertin. The painting is in the Chapel of the Paris Foreign Missions Society at 128, Rue du Bac
Pierre de Coubertin as a child, with one of his sisters, painted by his father Charles Louis de Frédy de Coubertin (detail of Le Départ , 1868).