Château de Bourron hosts study days, executive seminars, business meals, receptions, weddings and film shoots. Its ground-floor salons and vaulted rooms seat up to 120 guests, four rooms serve as meeting rooms, and 16 bedrooms on the estate can lodge a board or a wedding party. The château is a privately owned historic monument at 16 avenue Blaise de Montesquiou in Bourron-Marlotte, 7 km from Fontainebleau and about 70 km south of Paris.
Seminars and company events
The owners receive groups for study days and business meals, with staff on site and a dedicated coordinator. Four daylight meeting rooms look onto the north and south vistas of the park. The Salon des Glaces (75 square meters) takes up to 80 people in its largest layout and 24 in the others. The Salon Montesquiou (50 square meters) takes 12 to 30, the vaulted Louvois room (70 square meters) 24 to 70, and the vaulted Le Tellier room (45 square meters) 12 to 25.
Equipment includes a mobile screen, a projector, a paperboard, unlimited Wi-Fi, blackout shutters or curtains and a photocopier. Day packages cover the welcome coffee, two breaks and lunch, with options for a farewell cocktail, a dinner, team activities, an overnight stay with breakfast, mood lighting and sound. The car park holds 200 places.
The Cottage, 50 meters from the château, has five rooms and its own lounge and terrace. It can be reserved on its own for an executive seminar of up to 10 people in twin rooms.
Weddings and receptions
The wedding package includes exclusive use of the reception salons on the day, the 16 bedrooms of the estate, an on-site contact, sound and dance-floor lighting, and mood lighting in the salons. Caterer, DJ, furniture, flowers and photography come from partner suppliers. A marquee can extend the reception in the north vista; it stays out of sight when guests arrive and leave by the south vista. Receptions and private dinners can also book single salons.
Rooms and capacities
The Salon des Glaces seats 75 and takes 140 standing. The Salon Montesquiou seats 45 and takes 80 standing. The vaulted Louvois room, on the garden level, seats 70 and takes 120 standing. Together the ground-floor salons seat about 120.
Accommodation
The estate counts 16 bedrooms. Nine are in the château, each decorated after a figure linked to the house, such as the Cordon, Récamier, Sallard or Roi de Rome rooms, with desks and fiber Wi-Fi. Five more are in the Maison d'Artagnan, also called the Cottage. Two independent houses complete the offer: the Pavillon for two to four people and the Maison de la Source for two. Guests have a fitness room, a Nordic bath, a clay tennis court from May to October, bicycles and 42 hectares of walled park.
Catering
Breakfast is served as a buffet in the château. For seminars, lunch is included in the day package. For weddings, the caterer comes from the château's partners. The château works closely with chef Dominique Maës of the restaurant Les Prémices, 150 meters away.
History and setting
Bourron appears in records from 1150, and an early lord, Robert de Boron, wrote one of the first prose versions of the Grail story. In 1502 the estate passed to Olivier de Sallard, grand falconer of France. The present brick-and-stone château, flanked by two pavilions and surrounded by running-water moats, replaced the medieval fortress around 1600. In October 1725 it housed Stanislas Leszczynski, deposed king of Poland, during the wedding of his daughter to Louis XV. The Montesquiou-Fezensac family bought it in 1878, and their descendants restored it over 25 years.
Getting there
The château is about one hour from Paris and can be reached by train; a chauffeur collects guests at the station.
