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Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company which specialises in giant puppets. They were founded in 1979 in Aix-en-Provence by Jean-Luc Courcoult. After some years based in Toulouse, the company moved to Nantes in 1989. The company has performed in France, Belgium, England, Germany, Iceland, Chile, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Ireland.




Giants spectacular






Technical data


Sources: Portraits des géants on the Nantes website.




Gallery















Other works


The true history of France
Roman photo tournage
The Peplum (with odorama)
Revolt of the Mannequins. After Nantes in February 2008 and Antwerp, in July 2008, It was played in Berlin, in November 2008
They were also said to have made another giant, more lightweight elephant used in Take That Presents: The Circus Live, atop which the four band members performed "The Garden". This elephant had to be made much more lightweight to be transported between venues.




See also


La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider designed by the same man who designed the Sultan's Elephant but produced by La Machine - a different performing arts company.
Les Balayeurs du désert, an accompanying band who perform much of the music for productions run by the Royal de Luxe.
Machines of the Isle of Nantes




References






External links



Royal de Luxe official site
About Royal De Luxe (note that as of October, 2008, the site had no new updates since 2006)
BBC, "How giants genius Jean-Luc Courcoult fell for Liverpool", 25 July 2014
BBC article about Royal de Luxe, 24 December 2012
La Révolte des Mannequins ("Revolt of the Mannequins") Extensive photoblog of Royal de Luxe's show in Nantes, France, February 2008
I, for one, welcome the Giant French Rocket Girl and her Elephant of Royal Luxury! has a collection of links about the performance in Nantes
The Sultan's Elephant in London
Extracts from an interview with Jean Luc Courcoult by Jean-Christophe Planche
The Sultan's Elephant in Le Havre on October 2006. Pictures and videos
Photos and info, news, links etc. from Royal de Luxe events all over the world.
Photo Album about Royal de Luxe on Fotopedia
"Street Theatre and a Giant Elephant". BBC Radio 4. 21 November 2012.

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