Olympic Games/ Coubertin / Didon/ Le Havre/ Arcueil/ Essenti - Lot 1

Olympic Games/ Coubertin / Didon/ Le Havre/ Arcueil/ Essential lectures. In these two volumes, the heart of the Olympic ideal beats, and in a lively way, for here we unearth two major lectures on education, youth, sport and the Olympic Games. And by bringing them together here, we better understand the ideal that brought the baron and the religious man together: the faith in athletic education, which will travel through the Olympic channel: a) "Association Française pour l'avancement des Sciences , 18è Session, Paris, 1889". In these 480 pages, under this red cover bearing the coat of arms of Paris, the Baron's lecture delivered at the Séances of January 28, 1889, takes up a mere 11 pages. But if you read them, you'll see that, between the English reference and a little French bourgeois practice in force, it's a real revolution he's proposing to move towards the victory of the will. With, for example, an apology for athletics, both in high school and at university. Here, as early as 1889, we finally have an idea of the vital third way he is trying to open up. 25X16: b) "L'Education présente, discours à la jeunesse", by Father Didon, of the Order of Friars Preachers. 4È édition, 1909. 414p, fine binding, 18x12. Like the Baron, Father Didon loved words, and believed in the need for educational reform through exemplary sportsmanship. Immersed in the Olympic ideal from the time of his humanities studies at Grenoble's Rondeau school, this stout fellow, who would go on to become the school's three-time Olympic champion in 1855, was animated by the sacred fire. Now a Dominican, he writes and speaks like the Baron, and he, too, disturbs, tickles and scratches. This volume, first published in 1898 under the imprimatur of his order, brings together a dozen lectures, sermons, speeches and sermons delivered by "the lion of Touvet" in the 1890s. The rebirth of the will is achieved through freedom, day schooling, and therefore through sport in its infancy, which is omnipresent here, even if the 20 essential pages relate his speech at the Olympic Congress in Le Havre in 1897. The Arcueil school, Albert le Grand, with its black-and-white flag, was the laboratory of this new fraternity. Baron de Coubertin spearheaded this revolution, along with Dr Tissié (the forgotten Ariège man). Work and play must be given a fair share, and soccer is going to help rebuild the youth in which Didon, like Baron, believes. Two high-spoken lectures, two men of iron, which can be found here. Incidentally (so to speak), Father Didon is the inventor of the Olympic motto, so dear to the Baron: "Altius, Fortius, Citius". And if Father Didon has not fallen into oblivion, let's not forget that it's thanks to the fabulous work of our late friend Alain Arvin-Bérod, whom we recommend to you.