Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe hosts conferences, training sessions, meetings and cocktail receptions in three rooms, for up to 158 people seated in theater style or 180 at a cocktail. It is the first house built at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, the international student campus on boulevard Jourdan in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
Seminars and company events
The Cité internationale rents the reception rooms of its houses to companies and organizations for conferences, seminars, study days and cocktails. Bookings go through the campus events team, which quotes each event. Here the grand salon takes a plenary session of up to 158 in theater style or 70 in classroom style, and the two smaller rooms serve as breakout spaces or a committee room. A projector, a screen, a sound system, free Wi-Fi and a cloakroom are available; some are included in packages and others are added on request.
Larger programs can combine the house with other venues on the same campus. The houses in the park offer about twenty event rooms for 10 to more than 150 participants, and the Maison internationale adds more than 2,000 m² of event space for conventions and gala evenings.
Rooms and capacities
The grand salon covers 180 m² and is listed as a historic monument. It can be arranged in several layouts and opens directly onto a mezzanine and a private terrace. Capacities: 158 theater, 70 classroom, 36 U-shape, 48 boardroom, 180 cocktail.
The petit salon takes 50 in a U-shape or 50 for a cocktail, which suits a working lunch, a breakout group or a reception.
The salle des fresques, on the first floor with direct access to the mezzanine, takes 19 in classroom or U-shape, for a small committee.
The house gardens face the Pavillon central and can extend a reception outdoors in good weather.
Accommodation
The house is a student residence, and its rooms are let to students and researchers for stays of several months. Separately, the Cité internationale offers group accommodation on the campus, mainly from May to August, for academic, language or cultural programs such as summer schools, with stays from one night. This is booked as a group stay, apart from the event hire.
Catering
The house has no restaurant of its own for events. The campus events team works with a network of approved service providers for catering and technical needs, and the Cité offers breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and cocktails on the campus, adapted to each group.
History and setting
The house opened in 1925 and was the first residence of the Cité internationale. It grew from a meeting between Paul Appell, the mathematician who became rector of the University of Paris, and Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe, an industrialist from Lorraine whose oil company later became part of Shell. The architect Lucien Bechmann laid out seven pavilions around a central garden, in a style that recalls English colleges. The garden keeps a stone from bastion 82 of the Thiers fortifications of Paris, built in 1842.
The campus spreads over 34 hectares of parkland, the second-largest park in Paris, and houses more than 12,000 students and researchers from 150 countries each year.
Getting there
The house stands at 37 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, on the southern edge of the city. Cité Universitaire station on RER B and the tram T3a stop of the same name serve the campus entrance. RER B runs directly to Gare du Nord and to Charles de Gaulle airport.
