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Pierre de Coubertin: sport and ideology in the Third Republic, 1870–1914
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2009
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.
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