When did Pierre de Coubertin first publicly call for a revival of the Olympic Games?

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Pierre de Coubertin first publicly called for the revival of the Olympic Games on November 25, 1892, during a meeting of the Union des Sports Athlétiques in Paris.1

While Coubertin had previously addressed the topic at a congress on physical education and international sport held during the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition, that earlier appeal did not gain traction. His 1892 speech, in which he advocated for a new era of international sport to foster peace, also failed to produce immediate results. It was not until a second congress at the Sorbonne in 1894 that he successfully secured a formal resolution to hold the modern Olympic Games.231