France, April 24 -- "Olympism, a Modern Creation, an Ancient Heritage" runs until 16 September in the Galerie Richelieu and gathers 120 vases, pictures, drawings, stamps and letters from the Louvre, private collections as well as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the British Museum and the Ecole Francaise in Athens.

It also parades the contributions of the artist Emile Gillieron, who studied in Paris and roamed the Louvre galleries, and the academic Edmond Pottier, a conservationist and teacher at the museum.

It was Gillieron - installed in Athens since 1876 as an art teacher in the court of King George I - who delved into images of ancient Greece to inspire commemorative stamps for the 1896 Games in Athens.

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