The Coubertin Family – a short history of a noble French family

By Yvan de Navacelle de Coubertin

This paper on the Coubertin family has been written for my children and grandchildren and eventually my brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren (almost 50 people) as a family testimony on Pierre de Coubertin and Yvonne de Coubertin. I have heard a lot about them through my father Christian de Navacelle, who met Pierre quite a few times. I also learned about them, to a lesser extent, through my uncle Geoffroy de Navacelle, my father’s younger brother, who turned out to be a great expert on Pierre de Coubertin in spite of hardly having met him. I want to share what I now know and what I have learnt about this great Frenchman, “Uncle Pierre”.

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