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Question

What was the attitude of the French people towards the first olympic games, and why?

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Answer 1

You mean from 1896? As in more than 100 years ago? wtf...

Answer 2

Not sure but it was a Frenchman that proposed the whole idea of the Olympics again and started the Moderm Olympics.  

Answer 3

A Frenchman came up with the idea.

France competed at the 1896 Olympics, the first modern Olympics.

One of only 13 or 14 nations who attended.

Paris held the 1900 Olympics, the second modern Olympics.

BIRTH OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

When he announced in Paris, on a winter's evening in 1892, the forthcoming re-establishment of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin was applauded, but nobody at the time imagined the scale of the project entailed by reviving the ancient Olympic Games, appointing a committee in charge of organising them and creating an international movement. The IOC was created on 23 June 1894; the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896; and the Olympic Movement has not stopped growing ever since.