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    Henri Louis Rémy Didon, OP (17 March 1840, in Le Touvet – 13 March 1900, in Toulouse) was a French Dominican friar. He was also a writer, educator, and...
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  • Didon is the title of two French operas: Didon (Desmarets), a 1693 opera by Henri Desmarets Didon (Piccinni), a 1783 opera by Niccolò Piccinni Dido (disambiguation)...
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  • Didon is a tragédie en musique or opera in a prologue and five acts by librettist, Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, and composer Henri Desmarets...
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    of Notre Dame has been occupied by a succession of Dominicans. Père Henri Didon (1840–1900) was a Dominican. The house of studies of the province of...
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    International Olympic Committee. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast. Coubertin said that...
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    Higher, Stronger – Together) in 2021. The traditional motto was coined by Henri Didon OP, a friend of Coubertin, for a Paris youth gathering of 1891. The Pierre...
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  • Catholic family, was the instigator of this tradition. It was the Dominican Henri Didon, to whom we owe the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortis" (Faster, higher...
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    1 June 1888 Pierre de Coubertin, with the support of Jules Simon and Henri Didon, formed the Comité pour la Propagation des Exercises Physiques. This...
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    Columba Adams Frances Raphael Drane Bernard Chocarne Mary Cathedrine Smith Henri Didon Samuel Henderson Jacques Monsabré Félix Villé Maurice de Blic Marguerite...
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    included Pierre de Coubertin. De Coubertin took the motto from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who had coined the phrase during a speech before...
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