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Chapter 384, Opening Ceremony

In fact, many of these measures mentioned by Joseph have been implemented, such as various entertainment industries, various selections - from the "Paris Rose" selections participated by female actors from various nightclubs to the "Prometheus Awards" that influence the world. Various sports activities, such as Paris has started tennis competitions in various communities.

The Ministry of Truth also specially formulated the "France Tennis Competition Rules" and specially made a trophy with gold-plated silver base to be awarded to the tennis champions of various communities in Paris.

Tennis was once very popular in all classes in France (of course, one of the big reasons why this thing was popular was because the main purpose of this thing was gambling at that time). It also caused a lot of trouble because of gambling. Later, the Bourbon Dynasty simply made a one-size-fits-all approach and directly banned tennis.

However, banning tennis does not prohibit gambling, there are many ways to avoid gambling. What's more, although gambling often leads to small things, on the other hand, there are very few major turmoils directly caused. On the contrary, in a sense, it is a kind of joy that can relieve stress.

So after Napoleon came to power, the ban on tennis was abolished. With the guidance of the Ministry of Truth, this project is even more prosperous than when it was mainly used as a gambling method. The general development of community competitions and inter-community competitions is also more excellent as a joy.

As for gambling, gambling is not a good thing, but it still has certain effects, especially in terms of being a good person. It must be standardized and carried out in accordance with the principle of moderation and openness and transparency. To put it more clearly, that is, gambling about tennis can be found, but casinos about tennis gambling can only be managed by the state. To put it more clearly, it can only be carried out through tennis lottery of the Ministry of Truth.

In addition to tennis, the Ministry of Truth has also launched a new "football rule" and is preparing for community football matches. This has become the beginning of the football league in later generations.

Of course, nowadays, the most important event is the Olympics. Here the Olympic torch has arrived in the UK, and as for the other way, it should be on the way back from North America.

After another ten days, the torch returned from North America also arrived in Spain.

The sacred fire ship stayed in Spain for a day to understand the transmission of the sacred fire on the other side, so as to adjust its speed so that both sides could arrive in Paris at the same time. By the way, some supplies were also added. After completing the supply, it continued to go east and two days later, it arrived in Marseille. At this time, the other sacred fire also left Britain.

The transmission of the torch in France is slower than in other countries, because when it is transmitted in other countries, it usually only passes through some important cities, or even only passes through the capital. However, in France, the torch is turning around, running through small towns one by one, and even small towns with only a few thousand people are not missing. Moreover, every time I arrive at a small town, there will be lively parades and carnivals throughout the day. In this way, the speed of the torch will naturally slow down.

At this time, all media also focused their reports on the matters about the transmission of the torch. For example, where the torch was delivered, local terroirs, and various things that happened during the transmission of the torch. Of course, the focus of the reports of each newspaper is different. "Pravda" naturally focuses on the local people's welcome to the torch, "Businessman" focuses on local properties and possible businesses, while "The Sun" focuses on the romantic events that happened during the transmission of the torch (of course, these things are all made up. But everyone knows that things on the Sun can only be viewed).

This naturally took a lot of time, so it took more than two months to get closer to Paris. At this time, the Pope's crown also left Rome and took a boat to Paris with a huge delegation.

The French Navy specially sent a fleet to escort the Pope's crown throughout the entire journey. Under the escort of the fleet, they got ashore in Marseille. Lucien, Minister of Truth of France, presided over a grand welcome ceremony in Marseille, welcomed the distinguished guest, and presented the French people's gift to the Holy See - a marble statue of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to the Pope's crown.

Then, accompanied by Lucien, the Pope and his group took a special train and headed north to Paris. The French First Governor met with the Pope's Coronation and his party. The two had cordial and friendly talks on the development of Catholicism in the world and other issues of common concern.

During the talks, Napoleon welcomed the Holy See and his delegation to France to participate in the first Modern Olympic Games to be held in Paris. He told the Pope that achieving peace around the world is the most in line with the spirit of Christ, and the Olympic Games embodies this spirit. The arrival of the Pope also fully proves that the Holy See adheres to the spirit of Christ and is the true orthodox position of the Christian world. France is willing to work hand in hand with the Holy See to promote the spread of Catholicism all over the world.

The pope highly praised Napoleon's piety and compared him to Charlemagne of that year. He highly praised France's great contribution to the Catholic world. He said that just like Charlemagne was inspired by God and became the sword and shield of the Catholic Church, he believed that Napoleon and his subordinates would become the protectors and disseminators of the Catholic Church like Charlemagne and the twelve Paladins. The inseparable traditional friendship between France and the Holy See will be further strengthened.

After the talks, the Pope arrived at Notre Dame, the largest Catholic church in Paris. For some time in the future, until the end of the Olympics, the Pope's coronation will temporarily live here. They will preside over the ceremony of blessing for the French Republic and receive the bishops from all over France. Of course, this is just a formality. The French church is basically in a state of independence. Although they recognize the Pope as a spiritual leader, they are only limited to spiritual leaders.

And in fact, the doctrines of the French Church are already clearly different from those of the Holy See in many places. The difference between them is even greater than that between the Anglican Church and the Holy See. However, everyone ignored these differences very tacitly, acting as if everyone is really close.

On the third day after the Pope's crown arrived in Paris, both sacred fires returned to Paris. On May 30, 1804, the two sacred fires met in front of the Pantheon, and then the whole carnival began.

The torch was delivered in Paris in a community-based unit. On this day, the police department set several roads in Paris as pedestrian roads, prohibiting carriages from entering. A large number of Mounties were dispatched to maintain order. The flame was passed between various blocks of Paris in a very orderly manner, and did not appear in the stampede that occurred not long ago in British cities because of the crowds.

It took a whole day to complete the transmission of the torch in Paris and began to run towards the end in a relay situation - the main venue of this Olympic Games. About 1,000 citizens followed the torch in carriages, horse riding, and hiking to the main venue. Of course, those passionate young people who followed on foot were basically thrown off by the relay flame.

At that time, the young Mali-Henry Bell was also in the hiking team. He had just retired from the cavalry team as the rank of lieutenant and entered the Paris Comprehensive Crafts School to study, preparing to become an engineer after graduation. That day he and his enthusiastic classmates ran with the torch until they exhausted their energy and had to stop.

Looking at the sacred fire gradually faded away, Mali bent down, gasped and shouted like this: "Great France, please wait for your people..."

However, the torch did not stop, and France also ran faster than the relay torch. At this time, Napoleon, a large group of senior officials, and the visiting pope, had already arrived at the main venue on Napoleon's special train to prepare for the opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games that was about to begin. If Mali's classmates had not arrived from behind with rented carriages, Mali would have missed the opening ceremony. Although he could not buy tickets, he could only watch with a telescope on the high ground outside the venue.

The opening ceremony was held on the evening of June 1st. This time was chosen mainly for several considerations:

First of all, at night, French lighting technology can be better displayed. Moulin Rouge once creatively used various lights to make itself beautiful. Now, the technology in lighting has developed more. Although it is far from the future, in this era, the French can already use lights to make the main venue beautiful as dreamy.

In addition to the light show, there are also essential fireworks. A year ago, the laboratory of the University of Paris conducted a systematic study on the flame color reaction in order to invent a new method of analyzing metal minerals. This research became various signal flares in the laboratory of the military-industrial complex. Then, after the relevant technologies of the signal flares were civilized, they became various fireworks. With the support of these technologies, France's current fireworks technology can basically be said to be the first in Europe. These things also need to be allowed to be held at night.

The first thing that was held at the opening ceremony was of course the speech of the leader.

First of all, Napoleon's speech. Napoleon first expressed his wishes for world peace, expressed his praise for the Olympic spirit, and called on all participants to uphold the spirit of "friendship first, competition second", and show style and level in the competition.

Finally, Napoleon said:

"The true meaning of the Olympic spirit lies in "pursuing people-oriented and realizing human self-transcendence and self-improvement." Every athlete will show his superb skills in a fair competition environment, burst out the passion for participation, and create the glory of his desire in his heart.

The important mission of the Paris Olympics is to promote cultural exchanges among countries around the world. We sincerely hope that the Chinese nation’s long history and culture, the vibrant and vibrant cities and rural areas, and the hospitality of the people can leave beautiful memories for their friends.”

After Napoleon's speech ended, the Pope presided over the blessing ceremony for this Olympics.

After the lengthy and cumbersome blessing ceremony, there are various performances at the opening ceremony. Because of the pollution from the future, these performances naturally become various large-scale group gymnastics displays. In the eyes of people of this era, such large-scale group gymnastics performances seem to be showing some kind of military ability. After all, the strict queuing and shooting tactics have not been completely abandoned by some countries.

The first group of team gymnastics is of course mainly to review the history of the ancient Olympic Games. In this way, there are of course many things related to paganism in this group of team gymnastics, but everyone, including the Pope, ignored all of these.

At first it was imitating the Olympics in ancient Greece, but later there were various parades of the Roman Empire, crowds, carriages and even a few elephants (get it from the Turks).

Next is the part that expresses modern France. The participants of the team exercises have repeatedly changed their formation and formed the French national motto: "Freedom, Equality, Fraternity", and then the slogan of this Olympic Games is "Science, Progress, Peace".

After the team gymnastics performance, there is an entry ceremony for athletes from various countries. As the host, the French delegation was the first to enter the venue, while other countries entered the venue in alphabetical order. After the entrance ceremony, the athlete representatives spoke. Then, amid cheers, a torchbearer held the torch high and entered the sports field.

After entering the stadium, the torchbearer used the torch in his hand to lit the torch in the hand of the torchbearer who was dressed as an ancient Greek scholar waiting on the track. The torchbearer raised the torch, ran forward, waved to everyone, and showed everyone the sign of the Moulin Rouge painted on his clothes. The audience in the stands cheered together, and according to previous training, it quickly caused waves of people.

The torchbearer only ran less than a hundred meters, and there was another torchbearer dressed as an ancient Greek warrior waiting for him in front of him. He was able to go home and play for a lifetime, so in order to compete for this place, many people were almost broken. In the end, the problem was solved by auction. It is said that each of the five torchbearers on the venue spent an average of 50,000 francs on this.

The second torchbearer also ran and showed everyone the shield in his hand. The shield was painted with the logo of Bowang Insurance Company and the advertising slogan of Bowang Insurance Company: "Trustworthy Protection".

The third torchbearer, and even the fourth and fifth places, are dressed up as various ancient figures, and they also show everyone the advertisements of a certain company in various ways.

The fifth torchbearer held the torch and ran to the bottom of the main torch, where Polina, dressed as Artemis (the goddess of hunting), was waiting with a bow and arrow.

Because Artemis is a hunting goddess, she often needs to run in the woods. In order to make it easier to run in the woods, Artemis's outfit is quite cool. Like most Greek (Roman) goddesses, her tops have no sleeves, which completely reveals the two white arms. However, the skirts of those Greek goddesses are generally very long and can cover the feet. Even the beauty god Aphrodite, although it is common
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