Domaine de la Ferme de Jean Grogne hosts seminars, conferences, team building days, end-of-year parties, weddings and family celebrations, from a working group of 15 to a reception of 200 guests. It is a former farm with a 5-hectare park, two reception halls, a smaller room, a guesthouse and an equestrian center, at Fontenay-Trésigny in Seine-et-Marne, about 45 minutes from Paris.
Seminars and company events
The estate is open all year for company events and gives each space its own private car park. For a conference of 100 or a meeting of 15, the owners provide a video projector, a television, a flipchart and the furniture needed, from chairs and tables to armchairs and sofas. Meetings can also be held outdoors or by the water.
The park is used for team building: horse riding with the estate's instructors, group games and competitions, and sports on the large fields near the forest. The owners work with an events company for organised activities and can suggest other suppliers from their network. For residential seminars, groups can stay in the guesthouse and cook together in the kitchens of the three spaces, or bring in a caterer. Company dinners and end-of-year parties are also offered.
Weddings and receptions
Couples have the whole 5-hectare grounds: gardens for photographs, a covered open-sided barn for the drinks reception and a large pond for an outdoor civil-style ceremony. Dinner takes place in one of the 200 m² halls, for up to 200 guests. A 50 m² room opening onto the garden can host the children.
The estate imposes no caterer and no closing time. Tables, chairs and benches are provided, and each venue has a caterer's kitchen. Birthdays and family gatherings use the 50 m² room for up to 35 guests, or the large hall for bigger groups.
Rooms and capacities
The two main halls each cover 200 m². For company events the site gives 150 seated and 200 standing for conferences and business meals. The third room, of 50 m², has a large fireplace, daylight, direct access to a kitchen and a view over the garden; it seats up to 35 and suits workshops or breakout groups. Outdoor spaces include the covered barn, lawns and the pond.
Accommodation
The guesthouse on site has a honeymoon room called Zanzibar with a jacuzzi bath, two double rooms of more than 15 m² (Londres and Paris) and two rooms for four (Moscou and New-York) overlooking the central farmyard. All rooms have access to a kitchenette. Two dormitories, Rio and Sidney, are kept for holiday camp periods. With a second space called Boobl, the estate gives more than 30 beds for residential seminars. Two hotels of more than 100 rooms each are less than 3 km away.
Catering
There is no in-house catering. Clients choose their own caterer or cook for themselves, and the owners can recommend suppliers. Every venue on the estate has a caterer's kitchen.
History and setting
The farm dates back to the Middle Ages. Its barn, built of millstone with heavy buttresses, was once surrounded by moats, and later buildings were completed after the First World War. The Dhuicq family took over the farm in 1938. In 2020 four partners from one family, with backgrounds in hotel events and horse riding, took over the site and renovated the reception spaces.
Getting there
The estate is about 45 minutes from Paris by road and around 40 minutes by public transport from Paris Gare de l'Est. Disneyland Paris is about 20 minutes away.
