Father Henri Didon, the other inventor of the Olympic Games
Father Henri Didon, an atypical Dominican with innovative and often disturbing ideas, believed in education through sport. Less known than Pierre de Coubertin, whose friend he was, he is the one who created the Olympic motto. This wrestler, who died in 1900, was a conduit between Catholicism and modernity. Alongside Pierre de Coubertin, another Frenchman […]
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