The greatest joys, moreover, are not those which one enjoys,
but which one gives». The interventions of Pierre
de Coubertin, written or oral in favor of the corporal
burgeoning and development by sport, mark all his existence.
He gave a conference at the Sorbonne on November 25, 1892,
on «physical exercises in the modern world»,
followed by the announcement of the plan for reestablishing
the Olympic Games; in 1894, he declared at the Sorbonne
the reestablishment of the Games and the foundation of
the International Olympic Committee over which he would
preside from 1896 to 1925 with devotion and a rare competence.
For him, Olympism is the eagerness to relish the plenitude
of a culture which gives a meaning to life in opposing
to the natural weakness of man, the belief in the grandeur
of his destiny. By Olympism, a humanism is built above
all philosophical, scientific and artistic steps to envelope
them in the same effort to permit each one to find himself,
in seizing events in their universal signification.
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