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The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games dazzled with its grand display of glitter, parades, punctuated by typically French provocative performances that celebrate France’s unique
Focusing on the Seine rather than the stadium was one of the most self-conscious innovations of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. “Bold, original, and unique,”
The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris was joyfully creative, bizarre, and entertaining. At a personal level, I enjoyed it from start
As an event that memorably featured the spouting blood of beheaded aristocrats, the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris may not seem
Elite sport in 1924 was both vital and political. Now, it is merely commercial. This was epitomised by the fact that during the 2024 opening
President Macron’s use of the phrase ‘en même temps’ has become a political cliché, signalling duality, a need for nuance, or (as his supporters would
When it comes to the images that Olympic organisers seek to portray, there are several familiar discourses that emerge. These concern notions such as the
Among other things, Ludivine Broch is a founding editor of the French History Network and Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster. She joined
The next issue of French History will include a forum on Disability History in France, which you can read in advance (and is open access
In the latest in our series of ‘Hors d’oeuvre’ posts on the new Special Issue of French History on material culture, we caught up with
