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]
Charles Louis de Frédy de Coubertin received the Légion d'Honneur in 1865 for his artistic work.[2]