‘It was like us – a chaotic mess’: France enjoys Paris Games opening ceremony

Most French newspapers praise the Olympics spectacle but far-right commentators reject woke propaganda'

They had waited 100 years for it and the French, mostly, were determined to love their kitsch, crazy, subversive, waterborne and very rain-drenched Olympics opening ceremony. Less happy were far-right figures, who spied wokeist" propaganda.

A thoroughly unscientific poll on the rue de Rochechouart in Paris - where the far right have never had so much as a look-in - found plenty of enthusiasm.