Coubertin (Pierre de)/ English Education/ Eton/ Monge-Carnot - Lot 93

Coubertin (Pierre de)/ English Education/ Eton/ Monge-Carnot/ Daryl/ Olympic Games. Book: "L'Education Anglaise en France, by Pierre de Coubertin, with a preface by M.Jules Simon...". Hachette, 1889. First edition, paperback copy, pages uncut, in ABE, despite serious traces of moisture. 208 p, 18.7x12.2. A fundamental essay, whose driving force is the joy of living...Monge at Eton, the importance of rowing, cricket, the boat ceremony at Monge, the visit to the Juilly school (a pilot for water sports and horse-riding; where Desgrange would spend time), a very strong essay, right down to its appendix dated October 27, 1888, where Daryl-Grousset, who in "Le Temps" at the beginning of August 1888 had "reminiscences of the Olympic Games", takes him and his Ligue Nationale de L'Education Physique !!!! to task. As rare as it is important...for, apart from Coubertin's undeniable talent and obstinacy, we see here that he wasn't deaf.