Olympic Games/Coubertin, the little-known champion, visionar - Lot 16

Olympic Games/Coubertin, the little-known champion, visionary and humorous lecturer. Binding of the rare Revue du Touring Club de France (absent from the NL), with two complete years. Binding: "Revue Mensuelle du Touring Club de France" (1901 and 1902 together). With the most famous signatures (A.Ballif, Carlo Bourlet, Davin de Champclos, Dr. Léon Petit) and the most popular articles.Léon Petit) and the most original articles on cycle tourism, roads, inventions, brakes, and the mountains (famous competition in the Pyrenees), and above all at least two little-known articles by Baron de Coubertin: the first relates his fabulous sporting experiment of March 1901 in Cannes, where he proved that practicing six different sports, five times a year, is better for man than "thirty times in one year, a single sport". Three fabulous pages, on the colleague Coubertin, "without training and without fatigue...". The second is the account of his lecture at the Salle de la Société de Géographie on Thursday March 20, 1902. With an Olympic introduction (Athens, St Louis, marathon of the great Marey. Six monumental, humorous pages in which the Baron unleashes laughter and applause on the audience....The title of this flamboyant lecture: "A new form of physical education...". Over 1000 pages in all (Pp 1 to 575 for 1901, and 1 to 576 for 1902 (with final tables) 27x21.TBE.