Royal de Luxe

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

Gigantic puppets

Many of their spectacles use gigantic puppets:

Title	Locations	Remarks
The giant falls from the sky
The giant falls from the sky, last voyage
Return to Africa
The giraffe hunters
The Sultan's Elephant	London, May 2006 Antwerp, July 2006	A story about a time-travelling girl. Often called The Giant Little Girl on Internet-posted videos.
The Hidden Rhinoceros
The Giant of the Titanic	Nantes, June 2009	^[1] Photoblog of the show
The Diver and the Giant Little Girl	Antwerp, August 2010
The Mexican Giant, the dog Xolo and the Little Indian Girl	Guadalajara, November 2010 Nantes, may 2011	Photoset of the show in Nantes

The true history of France
Roman photo tournage
The Peplum (with odorama)
Revolt of the Mannequins ^[2]. After Nantes in February 2008 and Antwerp, in July 2008, It was played in Berlin, in November 2008.
La Machine ^[3]
They were also said to have made another giant, more lightweight elephant used in Take That Present: The Circus Live, atop which the four bandmembers performed 'The Garden'. This elephant had to be made much more lightweight to be transported between venues.