SAUT HERMÈS

Name: Saut Hermès
Start: 2027-03-19
End: 2027-03-21
Location: The Grand Palais

Mid March · The Grand Palais, Paris · Three Days · Since 2010 · The Field

Arranged by the Court

Riders gathered on the sand beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais at Saut Hermès, the spring jumping meeting in Paris — I · Beneath the Dome

Dates: 19 to 21 March 2027
WhereThe Grand Palais, Paris
DressLounge suit
AdmissionOpen to the public
The weatherIn March Paris reaches about 13°C by day and 6°C at night, and rain falls on about one day in three.
The tableThe Court dines afterwards at Lasserre, 17 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris (restaurant-lasserre.com).
Of noteThe Grand Palais admits no suitcase, travel bag or object larger than A3. There are no public lockers at the engagement.
In companyA member who means to go says so to the Secretary, and the Court seats its members together where the engagement allows.RSVP tells the Secretary that a member means to attend. Send passes the engagement’s name, its date and the address of its page to whomever the reader chooses, or, on a computer, copies the address; the Court itself sends and keeps nothing.RSVP

Saut Hermès is three days of show jumping under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, at the top of the Champs-Élysées, at the end of March.

Some two and a half thousand tonnes of sand are carried into the building for it.

Simon Delestre and Olga van de Kruishoeve land over a fence before the green iron balconies of the Grand Palais, lined with spectators, in 2026, at Saut Hermès, the spring jumping meeting in Paris — II · The Grand Palais

The Nave

The Grand Palais was built for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, and the great hall at its centre was designed for horses.

That is the part most visitors never learn. The nave is two hundred metres long and fifty wide, and it has no supporting pillars anywhere in it, because a pillar would block a spectator’s view of a horse and a horse’s line to a fence. The building was made to hold equestrian shows, and it held them from 1901 until 1957. The Concours Central Hippique drew sell-out crowds for half a century. There were stables in the basement.

The motor car arrived in the same hall in the same year. The Paris Motor Show opened there in 1901 and shared the building with the horses for fifty years. The horses left in 1957, and the cars soon after.

In 2010 a saddler brought them back.

Two riders on horses draped in orange Saut Hermès rugs walk the sand before green Paris boards and a full stand of spectators (2025) — III · The Orange Rugs

The Saddler

Hermès was founded in 1837 as a maker of harness. Saddles followed. For close to a hundred years the company had precisely one client, and the client was a horse.

Everything the house is known for now came afterwards and came out of that: the leather, the stitching, the scarves printed with bits and bridles, the bags named for saddlebags. The horse is not a theme the company adopted. It is what the company was for.

Saut Hermès is the house returning to its first customer, in the building where Parisians used to watch that customer perform. It is five-star jumping, which means the best riders in the world, and the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday afternoon.

A programme called Talents Hermès runs alongside it, in which riders under twenty-five are sponsored onto the circuit by established ones.

The jumping course laid out on the sand and the full grandstand seen from above at Saut Hermès, Grand Palais, Paris — IV · The Course

What to Know

The arena is built in a week and taken up in a week. The sand is laid over a stone floor, and a grandstand for four thousand put up inside a listed building.

The light is the thing. Jumping normally happens either outdoors in a field or indoors under electric light. Here it happens under glass in the middle of a city, and the sun moves across the sand over the course of an afternoon.

The seats are close and the hall is not large by the standards of the sport. A spectator sits near enough to hear a horse breathing between fences.

Everything about the presentation, from the fence design to the decoration, is made to look effortless and is not.

Tickets are limited by the size of the building and go early.

Questions

When is Saut Hermès 2027?

Saut Hermès 2027 is held from 19 to 21 March 2027. It is an international CSI 5* jumping competition under the glass roof of the Grand Palais; in 2026 it was held on 20, 21 and 22 March.

How do you buy tickets for Saut Hermès?

Tickets are sold only on sauthermes.com and through Fnac, and resale is strictly prohibited. Saut Hermès sells no hospitality or VIP packages and offers no group or corporate rates. The opening of sales for 2027 is to follow, and the event’s newsletter carries its news.

Is there a dress code at Saut Hermès?

Saut Hermès publishes no dress code; its FAQ covers access, tickets and prohibited items only. The Court wears a lounge suit.

What is not allowed at Saut Hermès?

Suitcases, travel bags and anything larger than A3 may not be brought into the Grand Palais, apart from motorcycle helmets and pushchairs, and there is no cloakroom or locker for the public. No animals are admitted. There is no valet service; visitors are directed to the public car parks nearby.

A chestnut clearing the orange H oxer at Saut Hermès, the Paris jumping meeting — V · The Oxer

The Court

Saut Hermès is not the Court’s own. Seats and rooms in Paris in March are sought on a member’s behalf, and the Court arranges the whole of it: getting there, where to stay, and the table afterwards.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.