La tour Eiffel s’est parée de lumière pour un spectacle final impressionnant.

A general view of the Trocadero venue, with the Eiffel Tower looming in the background
and lasers lighting up the sky, during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

 

 

L’ancien cycliste Charles Coste, âgé de 99 ans, a procédé au

dernier relais de la flamme olympique en la transmettant à

Teddy Riner et Marie-Jose Perec.

Torchbearer former French cyclist Charles Coste (C) gives the Olympic flame to

French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec (L) and French judoka Teddy Riner (2L)

during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024, at the

Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries garden)

(Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

 

 

La sprinteuse Marie-Jose Perec et le judoka Teddy Riner

ont allumé vasque olympique, qui s’est ensuite envolée dans le ciel parisien

TOPSHOT - The torchbearers French former sprinter

Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner arrive to light the Olympic

cauldron during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

 

 

 

 

 

Des danseurs classiques sur un toit de Paris

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Dancers perform on a roof during the opening ceremony of the

Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France.

(Photo by Dan Mullan / POOL / AFP)

 

 

Les délégations ont défilé sur la Seine tout au long de la cérémonie.

 Delegations sail in a boat along the river Seine during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / POOL / AFP)

 

 

Un panache de fumée bleu blanc rouge pour l’ouverture de la cérémonie.

Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony -

Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Smoke clouds in the tricolours of the

France flag are seen at Pont d'Austerlitz during the opening ceremony.

(Photo by Ann Wang / POOL / AFP)

 

 

L’ancien joueur de foot français Zinedine Zidane a porté la flamme olympique.

Former French football player Zinedine Zidane holds the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Xu Chang / POOL / AFP)

 

 

Lady Gaga a interprété « Mon truc en plume » au pont de Sully.

US' singer Lady Gaga sings a song at the Sully bridge area before the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

 

 

Céline Dion a fait son grand retour en interprétant

« L’hymne à l’amour » d’Edith Piaf, quatre ans après sa dernière prestation sur scène.

TOPSHOT - A grab of a video released by the

Olympic Broadcasting Services shows Canadian

Singer Celine Dion performing on the

Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on July 26, 2024.

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Athletes from France's delegation wave French flag as they sail in a boat along the river Seine

during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024,

as the Louvre Museum is seen in the background.

(Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

 

 

TOPSHOT - Paris 2024 Olympics -

Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024.

Aya Nakamura performs during the opening ceremony.

(Photo by Esa Alexander / POOL / AFP)

 

 

The Institut de France is illuminated with fireworks during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

 

 

People wave from balconies in Paris, France,

during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics,

Friday, July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Lee Jin-man / POOL / AFP)

 

 

Headless figures depicting the 18th century Queen Marie Antoinette

perform along the Seine river embankment outside the Conciergerie,

where the queen was held captive during the French revolution,

during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

 

 

La Patrouille de France a dessiné un cœur dans le ciel, au-dessus de la Conciergerie

Athletes from Croatia's delegation sail in a boat along the Seine river past the

Conciergerie during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024

Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024

as a heart made with red smoke by four planes floats in the air above.

(Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

 

 

 

 

 

Ambiance disco sur la Seine devant la tour Eiffel.

Performers dance in a show on a boat sailing along the Seine river near

the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

 

 

La cérémonie d’ouverture vue du ciel.

A grab of a drone video released by the Olympic Broadcasting Services

shows an aerial view of the delegations boats navigating on the Seine past the Pont de l'Alma Bridge

during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,

in Paris, on July 26, 2024.

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Le passage de la délégation française sur la Seine.

Athletes from France's delegation sail in a boat along the river Seine,

during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on

July 26, 2024. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / various sources / AFP)

 

 

Les délégations arrivent au Trocadéro après avoir paradé sur la Seine.

Delegations arrive on the Iena Bridge during the opening ceremony

of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024,

as the Eiffel Tower is seen in the background.

(Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

 

 

An amputee fashion model displays creations while walking a catwalk erected along the

Passerelle Debilly bridge on the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in

Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

 

 

 

Le porteur de la flamme, fil rouge de cette cérémonie d’ouverture.

A torchbearer carries the Olympic flame over a building along the

Seine River in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics,

Friday, July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Bernat Armangue / POOL / AFP)

 

 

 

 

 

The horsewoman (C) rides the Iena Bridge during the opening ceremony of the

Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.

(Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

 

 

La délégation française, une fois sur la terre ferme.

Members of France's delegation walk on

the Iena Bridge during the opening ceremony

of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024,

as the Eiffel Tower is seen in the background.

(Photo by Martin  BERNETTI / AFP)

 

 

Les délégations se rejoignent sur la place du Trocadéro.

Athletes arrive at the Trocadero in Paris, France,

during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics,

Friday, July 26, 2024. (Photo by Petr David Josek / POOL / AFP)

 

 

Un cheval mécanique a galopé sur les 6 km du parcours sur la Seine.

Floriane Issert, a Gendarmerie non-commissioned officer of the

National Gendarmerie, rides on a metal horse up the Seine river past the

Cassation Court and Conciergerie,

during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in

Paris on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

 

 

Fabriquée par la créatrice française Jeanne Friot et l’artisan Robert Mercier,

sa tenue onirique représentait l’esprit olympique ainsi que la déesse Sequana,

symbole de résistance et divinité celtique qui habitait la Seine.

 

 

 

A partir de ce dimanche 14 juillet,

jour de fête nationale, la flamme de

Paris 2024 va traverser toute la capitale,

du Louvre à la butte Montmartre,

avec la délicate mission de rallumer l'étincelle olympique,

éteinte par la crise politique