Espace La Rochefoucauld hosts meetings, training sessions, seminars, exams, general assemblies, product launches and cocktail evenings, from a 10-seat meeting room to a rooftop event space listed for up to 200 guests. The building is a former mansion at 11 rue Catherine de La Rochefoucauld, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It is the flagship of the Formeret group, which rents meeting and event space in three Paris buildings.
Seminars and company events
The building holds 40 air-conditioned meeting rooms on five floors, about 2,000 square meters in all. You can book a single room, hire the rooftop event space on its own or privatize the whole building. Formeret sells rooms for board meetings, general assemblies, conferences, training, computer classes, team building, written and oral exams and recruitment days. Rooms can be set in U-shape, islands, classroom or theatre layout.
For a seminar of about 100 people, the four largest rooms each cover 100 square meters and take up to 110 guests in theatre layout, 50 around a boardroom table or 42 in a U-shape. Breakout groups can use the 20 rooms of 50 square meters, which take up to 40 in theatre layout or 24 at a boardroom table. Fifteen rooms of 30 square meters suit interviews, juries and small working groups of 10 to 16.
Bilingual hosts welcome guests at reception and stay available during the event. Services include very high-speed fiber Wi-Fi, A4 and A3 printing, touch screens, secure storage for material and luggage, lounge corners for breaks and a technical team on call. The building is certified to receive the public (ERP) and is listed as accessible to guests with reduced mobility.
Rooms and capacities
The four rooms of 100 square meters are the main plenary rooms, with up to 110 seats in theatre layout. One room of 75 square meters takes up to 60 in theatre layout, 30 at a boardroom table or 30 in a U-shape. The 20 rooms of 50 square meters take up to 40 in theatre layout and 22 in a U-shape. The 15 rooms of 30 square meters take up to 16 in theatre layout.
The rooftop event space is on the fifth floor. Formeret describes it as 300 square meters of modular space with its terrace, and lists it for 110 in theatre layout and up to 200 guests. The terrace looks over the roofs of Paris toward the Sacré-Cœur, and the building also has a shaded courtyard.
Catering
Formeret does not run its own kitchen. It arranges breakfasts, lunches, breaks and lunch or dinner cocktails through about 15 partner restaurants near its buildings and three referenced caterers, who also supply meal trays and event catering. A meeting day can include three breaks: coffee and tea on arrival, a mid-morning break with juice and pastries, and a mid-afternoon break.
Accommodation
There are no bedrooms in the building. Formeret works with 15 partner hotels close to its three sites and can book rooms for your group.
History and setting
The street, and the venue, take their name from Catherine de La Rochefoucauld, one of the last abbesses of the Montmartre convent, which was closed and destroyed in 1790. The area grew in the early 19th century as the Nouvelle Athènes district, where Géricault, George Sand and Delacroix lived and worked. The Gustave Moreau museum stands across the street, and the Musée de la Vie romantique is a short walk away. Formeret, founded in 1984, has received companies, associations and institutions here for close to four decades. The building has also hosted film shoots and a polling station for a Brazilian presidential election.
Getting there
Gare Saint-Lazare is about five minutes away on foot. The nearest metro stations are Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves, Saint-Lazare and Chaussée d'Antin, and a public car park is four minutes away.
