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One of the stranger facets of the deeply controversial Paris Olympics opening ceremony is the apparent agreement by its creators that part of its purpose is to refute — of all things — a French theme park and its traditionalist approach to national history.
Puy du Fou is a theme park in the Loire in Western France, founded among the ruins of a historic Chateau in 1978 by, as he is described by the left in French media, the “ultra-rightist” businessman and politician Philippe de Villiers. Asin some reports about him, de Villiers is a “royalist… a Eurosceptic nationalist who has been criticised for his anti-Islam and anti-abortion views.
in 2021, outlining then his core vision for the Olympic display he would go on to direct in 2024. Here, even in the earliest days of the conception of that performance, that traditionalist theme park is already looming large. In a whole section of the essay titled “Let’s not do a Puy du Fou project,” Jolly stated:
The deep loathing for this theme park may not, paradoxically, be something the French Olympic committee may necessarily strongly agree with their opening ceremony team on. Indeed, the Olympic Torch relay route taking it from Greece to Paris this year saw the flame take a stop at Puy du Fou, where it wasAnd to be clear, the loathing is not all one sided. The Olympic opening ceremony was castigated by Christians and cultural conservatives world-wide.
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