This is what a Parisian spectator of the Paris Games said, in a report by Tamara Alteresco, on Radio-Canada. After so much cynicism and doubts about the City of Lights’ ability to generate enthusiasm for these Olympics with maximum security (and exorbitant cost, it must be said), the French have let themselves be taken in by “the games” and have embraced them with a fervor they had not anticipated. This festive event, which started superbly (thank you Céline!) and which introduced us to the creative director Thomas Jolly (who also signs the staging of “our” Starmaniacurrently showing at Place Bell in Laval), will have made us witness the best of ourselves and dream, a habit that we had almost forgotten as the climate, international news and growing poverty regularly block our view. Let us be chauvinistic too: our athletes, galvanized, return with 27 medals, including 9 gold!
This “interlude of happiness” (and this cheap jump to the most beautiful city in the world!), added to the fact that the American presidential campaign has taken a completely different turn and gives us a break from the “trumpery” that constantly left us thinking the worst (we had heard about “joy” and the art of “raising people up rather than putting them down” from our Southern politicians a long time ago), constitutes a breath of fresh air that we would like to see stretch out… It’s up to us to work on it, carried by these doses of grandeur and absolute that are more than welcome.
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