"The [TV] director missed quite a few moments," admitted Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, on BFM TV. So much happened during the three-hour, 45-minute spectacle on the Seine that not everything was shown on television. Paris firefighters, the Patrouille de France air show, tightrope walkers... Le Monde shows you the scenes you missed during the July 26 opening ceremony.

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