{"id":61251,"date":"2024-09-30T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=61251"},"modified":"2025-07-06T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T17:07:16","slug":"professors-article-places-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-historical-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2024\/09\/30\/professors-article-places-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-in-historical-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor\u2019s Article Places Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony in Historical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By all accounts, the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris had the largest audience ever \u2013 more than 300,000 in person and hundreds of millions on TV. The spectacle, which took place on and along the Seine river, was the first Olympic opening to be held outside of a stadium, but it was certainly not the first time the French had staged a magnificent display of pageantry on the Seine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor of Architectural History Matthew Gin was among the throngs along the riverbanks, bringing to the occasion a unique perspective that places the contemporary celebration into centuries-old context. His article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal18.org\/nq\/liberte-egalite-festivite-the-opening-ceremony-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-by-matthew-gin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Festivit\u00e9: The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/a>,\u201d published this month in <em>Journal18<\/em>, demonstrates precedents for Paris 2024 in events staged nearly 300 years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gin is an expert on French ephemeral architecture built for royal festivals and diplomatic ceremonies in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century.&nbsp;His dissertation,&nbsp;<em>Paper Monuments: The Politics of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment France<\/em>, led to <a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2024-03-28\/professors-research-reconstructs-ephemeral-stages-18th-century-french-diplomacy\/\">an article in the&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians <\/em>earlier this year<\/a>. &nbsp;\u201cStaging Sovereignty: Ephemeral Architecture and the Entry of Maria Teresa Rafaela into France, 1745\u201d reconstructs the event when Princess Maria Teresa Rafaela left Spain and became the bride of Prince Louis-Ferdinand of France, highlighting how temporary structures, like bridges and an elaborate pavilion, played an important role in the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, supported by grants from the American Philosophical Society and the American Historical Association and a fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library, Gin was in France to complete his archival research for a book, timing his travels so that he could witness the Olympic ceremony first-hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe opening ceremony most strongly recalls two waterborne festivals staged in 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century Paris,\u201d Gin wrote in <em>Journal18<\/em>. \u201cOne is the celebration given by the Spanish ambassadors to France in 1730 to belatedly mark the 1729 birth of Louis XV\u2019s first son, the dauphin. The other\u2026 is the 1739 festival organized by the city of Paris to honor the marriage of Louis XV\u2019s oldest daughter, Princess Louise-\u00c9lisabeth, to the Infante of Spain. While elaborate displays had been staged on the Seine since the 1540s, these two celebrations were unprecedented in their scale and sheer spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1730 celebration, for example, featured a \u201cvast floating garden\u201d in the middle of the river, Gin writes, with \u201ca mountain constructed of wood and papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 whose twin peaks reached upwards of 80 feet, flanked by groves of trees and parterres de broderie traced out in grass and colored sand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"789\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2.jpg\" alt=\"18-century illustration of festival.\" class=\"wp-image-61259 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2-1000x658.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/fig_2-2-300x197.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/789;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dumont [engraved by], \u201cPlan and view of the fireworks\u201d from Nicholas Lenglet Du Fresnoy,&nbsp;<em>Description de la feste et du feu d\u2019artifice qui doit \u00eatre tir\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris, sur la Riviere\u2026<\/em>&nbsp;(Paris: Pierre Gandouin, 1730). Biblioth\u00e8que de l\u2019Institut national d\u2019histoire de l\u2019art, collections Jacques Doucet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the 2024 ceremony activities occurred along a three-mile stretch of the Seine, unlike the 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century predecessors, which occupied just one section of the river, the only way to see the full event was on a screen \u2013 whether you were physically at the ceremony or not. Gin finds an element of \u201c\u00e9galit\u00e9\u201d in that set-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven from their privileged seating positions by the Eiffel Tower, President Macron and VIPs like Anna Wintour experienced most of the ceremony tele-technologically,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe democratization was striking: the king\u2019s central authoritative gaze replaced by the omnipotent view of the television camera.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"3024\" height=\"1701\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen.jpg\" alt=\"photo of large screen at Paris Olympics ceremony\" class=\"wp-image-61271 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/olympic_screen-300x169.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 3024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 3024\/1701;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of the 80 giant screens that the city of Paris erected for viewing the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Photo by Matthew Gin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 30, Gin will talk about his Parisian experience and his larger body of research in a Colloquium in the School of Architecture. The presentation will take place in Storrs 290, 1:15-2:15 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Gin explores 300-year-old precedents for the 2024 spectacle in Journal18 essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":61253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_clt_a11y_last_scan":"1778695584","_clt_a11y_has_violations":"0","_clt_a11y_violations":"[]","_clt_a11y_suppressions":"","_clt_a11y_needs_validation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,255],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-61251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor\u2019s Article Places Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony in Historical Context - 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