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^[1] 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.

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Sources: Portraits des géants on the Nantes website.

• The Sultan's Elephant in London (2006)
• A Royal de Luxe operator manipulates the Sultan's Elephant head.

• The true history of France
• Roman photo tournage
• The Peplum (with odorama)
• Revolt of the Mannequins.^[14] 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".^{[citation needed]} This elephant had to be made much more lightweight to be transported between venues.

• 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