From Lausanne, where he lived from 1917 and of which he
was «honorary bourgeois», he pursued an overwhelming
activity, giving the best of himself, and in which, little
by little, his personal fortune was swallowed up.
One of his dominant traits was his capacity to pass immediately
from conception to execution.
Little or poorly known outside of the Olympic movement
which he created entirely in renewing the antique tradition,
he deserves above all the title of «humanist».
In his mind, Olympism is inseparable from Culture, and
it is for this reason that he advocated the education
of the intelligence at the same time as that of the body.
Such was this spontaneous, generous man, of revolutionary
conceptions, a rebel to all past ideas; this genial pedagog
entirely devoted to the youth of the world in whom he
onserved all his faith until his sudden death in Geneva
in 1937.
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