[3] The venue was already equipped with temporary stands installed a few weeks earlier for the Olympic skateboarding, breakdancing, BMX freestyle and 3X3 basketball events.

Curin was the host of a show called "Théo Le Taxi" on France Télévisions, the official broadcaster of the 2024 Paralympic Games.

At the end of the segment, the two groups came together as French singer Christine and the Queens performed Edith Piaf's Non, je ne regrette rien.

[8][13][14] Olympic and Paralympic Phryges danced and play acted on stage while the 168 delegations of athletes entered the Place de Concorde in French alphabetical order, except for Australia, the United States and France, which brought up the rear in that order as the host nations of the 2032, 2028 and 2024 Summer Paralympics respectively.

[8] A video was shown depicting the origins of the Paralympic movement under Sir Ludwig Guttmann at the spinal injuries hospital in Stoke Mandeville in the UK.

[8][17] A video was shown in which blind Canadian YouTube personality Molly Burke, quadriplegic comedian Martin Petit, and the amputee Lucie Retail spoke frankly about their respective disabilities, the way they affect their lives and the way they are perceived and treated by others.

As the flame was handed over between the torchbearers, the 150 dancers carrying torches performed a choreography set to Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

[8] The torch was then carried to the Jardin des Tuileries by three French champions: Assia El Hannouni, Christian Lachaud [fr] and Béatrice Hess.

French athletes Charles-Antoine Kouakou, Nantenin Keïta, Fabien Lamirault, Alexis Hanquinquant and Élodie Lorandi lit the cauldron.

[19][20] The cauldron took the form of a 7-metre diameter ring of fire with 40 computerised LEDs and 200 high-pressure water aerosol spray dispensers which was topped by a 30-metre-tall helium sphere resembling a hot air balloon 22 metres in diameter, that rose in the air, reminiscent of the first flight in a hydrogen balloon by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers in Paris in 1783.

Dancers performed on stage, which was flooded with colour in tribute to British artist Sue Austin, who used a wheelchair to paint, while Christine and the Queens sang Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive".