One of the main characters of the opening ceremony conceived by Thomas Jolly was a mysterious torchbearer who carried it throughout the ceremony across the rooftops of Paris. Nine people, men and women, hid under this mask, leaving the suspense open for the final torchbearer. One of the key characters at the ceremony was a mysterious torchbearer who received the torch that Zinedine Zidane was carrying at the start of the prologue video and carried it throughout the ceremony across the rooftops of Paris. Nine people, men and women, hid under this mask, leaving the suspense as to who would be the final torchbearer. At the Théâtre du Châtelet, the flame bearer attended a performance of Les Misérables based on the work by Victor Hugo. In this segment evoking the emancipation of peoples, the characters seemed to have emerged from Eugène Delacroix's 1830 painting La Liberté Guidant le Peuple, inspired by the July Revolution, known as the Three Glorious Days.