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The great firework of Saint-Cloud (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.

The show
The show lasts almost two hours and is made up of around thirty scene. The scene are wedged on the soundtrack or are lunch using the "dry fire" technique, that is to say without sound accompaniment.

The 2013 edition was organized by 120 technicians, including twenty fireworks expert. There are 4,500 lunch orders and 60,000 projectiles.

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.

The creator and organizer is Patrick Jolly, co-founder of De Particulier à Particulier ,. Jean-Éric Ougier is the artistic director with other designers of the company Fêtes et Feux after having been the pyrotechnician,.

Funding
Its cost exceeds one million euros, including around 700,000 euros for firework component, the rest being media and communication plans. Although 23,000 seats are paying, but, they only finance part of the show ,, private funds financing the other part.