Domaine de Frémigny hosts meetings, seminars, conventions and congresses for groups of all sizes, up to 300 people in its auditorium, with 298 bedrooms on site. The estate combines an 18th-century château with two modern wings and a former farm, in a 27-hectare wooded park between the Juine and Essonne rivers at Bouray-sur-Juine, about 45 minutes south of Paris. It is a dedicated business venue and does not market weddings.
Seminars and company events
The estate is built for residential seminars. Work spaces are spread across three buildings. The château and its wings hold most of the meeting rooms, about 50 in all, with daylight, and several dining areas. The farm, whose former stables were restored in 2011, contains a modular auditorium of 300 seats, breakout rooms and a dining area. The Club building adds three more meeting rooms. A dedicated sales team handles each booking, and rooming lists are due 15 days before the event. The green setting lends itself to outdoor activities and team building with partner companies. The estate holds the Clef Verte environmental label and a CSR certification.
Rooms and capacities
The auditorium in the farm seats up to 300 and can be reconfigured. The farm also has six to eight breakout rooms. The château side offers about 40 to 50 meeting rooms in a range of sizes, all with natural light. The Club has three meeting rooms. Capacities per room are not published, so ask the sales team for the right mix of plenary and breakout rooms for your program.
Accommodation
The estate has 298 bedrooms in three categories: standard rooms of 14 square meters with a 140 cm bed, executive rooms of 28 square meters with a 160 cm bed, and one suite of 60 square meters. An accessible room is available for guests with reduced mobility. Rooms are available from 3pm and must be vacated by 9am, and a luggage room is provided. Breakfast is served from 7:15 to 9am. The estate offers a fitness room open from 6am to 10pm, a 1.8-kilometer fitness trail through the woods, two outdoor hard tennis courts, a multisports pitch, table tennis and a pétanque ground, with equipment at reception.
Catering
The kitchens are run by a chef and serve buffets, cocktails and seated meals. Dining takes place in the Domaine restaurant and in private spaces such as La Terrasse, with its lawn esplanade, and the Auxois room. In the evening, the Lounge bar is open from 5pm to midnight, with a video projector and two screens for major sports matches; in summer it moves outdoors as the Paillote.
History and setting
The estate traces its origins to a Gallo-Roman villa. Charles-Louis Huguet de Semonville, diplomat under Louis XVI, the Empire and the Restoration, and mayor of Bouray from 1816 to 1830, left it in 1825 to his stepson Charles-Tristan de Montholon, Napoleon's aide-de-camp, who took down the emperor's will in exile. Montholon sold the château in 1830. The present building was rebuilt under the Consulate in an Italianate style. The park, listed in the inventory of cultural heritage, includes a pond and an orangery. The AXA group bought the estate in 1963 and turned it into a training center in 1987.
Getting there
The address is Rue de Frémigny, 91850 Bouray-sur-Juine. From Paris, RER C stops at Bouray station, 5 minutes from the estate by its 7-seat shuttle, which runs on a set schedule. Massy TGV station is about 30 minutes by car and Paris-Orly about 35 minutes. By road, the estate is reached from the A6, A10 and A11. The car park has 270 free spaces and two charging points.
