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"This is a machine for walking like an Egyptian. This one crunches apples like Catherine Deneuve. And that's a spit for roasting Joan of Arc."
*sidebar1*In its 100-year existence Paris' majestic Grand Palais museum has never hosted anything like it — a battery of barmy Heath Robinson contraptions that clang, creak, explode and generally make people laugh.
Most museum goers spend an hour or two at an exhibition. At the 'Grand Repertoire' they stay entire afternoons, entranced by a world where pigs really do fly.
"Ladies and gentlemen," announces Mitch, an actor and contraption designer from Marseille, "the Hale Bopp comet."
"This comet is mounted on a 1950s British BSA motorbike. It has an 18-horse-power engine. I counted the horses this morning."
He straddles the spluttering engine, revs hard and the comet shoots 12 metres up into the air. The audience gasps.
Snow machine, time machine
"I've been five years old again for the past two hours," smiles 41-year-old spectator Marie, brushing flecks of soapy snow out of her hair.
"Ah yes, the snow machine," recalls Jacky, another actor-cum-mechanical wizard, struggling out of a battery-powered skirt that whirls like a dervish while he stands still.
The Grand Palais houses the 'street theatre machines'. [Photo: Didier Plowy]
"We used it for a scene in 'The True History of France' 22 years ago. Now THAT was epic street theatre.
"The scene featured Napoleon in a sulk retreating from Moscow in flames in the middle of a snow blizzard. It was a job to pull off."
Royal de Luxe, creator of 'The True History of France', is one of 15 French street theatre troupes whose wacky inventions are on show in this most august of national monuments.
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