Royal de Luxe

Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company. They were founded in 1979 by Jean Luc Courcoult. The company has performed in France, Belgium, England, Iceland and Chile.

Gigantic puppets

"The Sultan's Elephant" (often called The Little Girl Giant on Internet-posted videos) is a story about a time-travelling girl, which has taken place in a few cities including London in May 2006 and uses gigantic puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the fifth in a series using giant puppets. The others are:

* The giant falls from the sky
* The giant falls from the sky, last voyage
* Return to Africa
* The giraffe hunters
* "The Hidden Rhinoceros"

Other works

* The true history of France
* Roman photo tournage
* The peplum
* "Revolt of the Mannequins" [ [http://larevoltedesmannequins.blogspot.com/2008/02/introduction-to-la-rvolte-des.html La Révolte des Mannequins] (2008)]
* "La Machine" [ [http://lamachine.co.uk La Machine] (2008)]

ee also

*La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider designed by the same man who designed the Sultan's Elephant, but produced by a different performing arts company, La Machine
*The Machines of the Isle of Nantes - Tourist destination of artistic and cultural creations.

References

External links

* [http://www.thesultanselephant.com/about/royaldeluxe.php About Royal De Luxe]
* [http://larevoltedesmannequins.blogspot.com La Révolte des Mannequins] ("Revolt of the Mannequins") Extensive photoblog of Royal de Luxe's show in Nantes, France, February 2008
* [http://zonelibre44.free.fr/royal_de_luxe.htm Comprehensive unofficial page] (in French)
* [http://jwz.livejournal.com/488113.html 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
* [http://thesultanselephant.com The Sultan's Elephant in London]
* [http://thesultanselephant.com/assets/downloads/pdf/Interview.pdf Extracts from an interview with Jean Luc Courcoult by Jean-Christophe Planche]
* [http://www.aucoindelarue.fr/royal/lavisite_dusultan.html The Sultan's Elephant in Le Havre on October 2006. Pictures and videos]
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/royaldeluxecentral/ Photos and info, news, links etc. from Royal de Luxe events all over the world.]