User:Bzmaseo12/The great firework of Saint-Cloud
The great firework of Saint-Cloud (French: Le grand feu de Saint-Cloud) is a fireworks show fired every year at the beginning of September in the park of Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), in France. Created in 2008, this fireworks display is the largest in Europe[1].
The show
[edit]The show lasts almost two hours and is made up of around thirty scene[1]. The scene are wedged on the soundtrack or are lunch using the "dry fire" technique, that is to say without sound accompaniment[2].
The 2013 edition was organized by 120 technicians, including twenty fireworks expert. There are 4,500 lunch orders and 60,000 projectiles[3].
In 2013, for the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre who designed the Saint-Cloud park, the show pays homage to him by drawing heavily on fireworks fired at the time of Louis XIV at Versailles[4].
The creator and organizer is Patrick Jolly, co-founder of De Particulier à Particulier[1],. Jean-Éric Ougier is the artistic director with other designers of the company Fêtes et Feux after having been the pyrotechnician,.
Funding
[edit]Its cost exceeds one million euros, including around 700,000 euros for firework component, the rest being media and communication plans[5]. Although 23,000 seats are paying, but, they only finance part of the show[1],, private funds financing the other part[3].
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Grand Feu de Saint-Cloud : pourquoi c'est si cher". Le Parisien. 8 septembre 2012. Retrieved 6 juillet 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help). - ^ "Plein les yeux avec le plus grand feu d'artifice d'Europe". RTBF. 26 mai 2014. Retrieved 6 juillet 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help). - ^ a b "Le « plus grand feu d'artifice d'Europe » produit par le président fondateur du groupe PAP". Les Échos. 14 août 2013. Retrieved 6 juillet 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help). - ^ "Le grand feu de Saint Cloud, un hommage grandiose à Lenôtre". TF1. 6 septembre 2013. Retrieved 6 juillet 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help). - ^ Sasportas, Valérie (6 septembre 2013). "Jean-Eric Ougier: «Le feu d'artifice commence à faire sa révolution»". Le Figaro. Retrieved 6 juillet 2014.
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