Brookes was in regular contact with Pierre de Coubertin, a fellow supporter of public health through sport.
Pierre de Coubertin, considered the father of the modern Olympic Games, would be pleased.
This was not the goal of the modern Olympics founder, Baron de Coubertin.
It was from Victorian Britain that the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, took his inspiration.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin of France founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894 with the lofty ambition of reducing military conflict through sport.
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It was Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, who first conceived the idea of a marriage between sport and the arts.
The Much Wenlock Games came to the notice of Pierre de Coubertin, who saw it as a model to revive what has become the modern Olympics.
But International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin -- often referred to as the "grandfather of the modern Olympics" -- still awarded 21 gold medals to the expedition.
And he added that it would be dedicated to advancing modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin's vision of building a better world through sport, culture, education, health and environment initiatives.
The modern Games room is devoted exclusively to Pierre de Coubertin, the man credited with organising the modern Olympics in the 1890s, again in the name of peace among nations, as well as designing its interlocking ring symbol.
However many Olympic historians believe that the wily Baron de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic movement - used the eruption as a face-saving formula to disguise the fact that the Italians just could not afford to stage the Games.
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