La Bergerie, Domaine de la Jeanne hosts seminars, study days, weddings and private receptions in Dijon. It offers seven meeting rooms with up to 80 seats in theater layout and 27 bedrooms on the estate, inside a five-hectare wooded park among the vines, 10 minutes from Dijon station.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells meeting-room hire, study days and residential seminars. Its rooms were recently renovated and are fitted with wall screens with ClickShare wireless projection, microphones and speakers with a built-in soundbar, paperboards, notepads and pens. They receive daylight and look onto the forest, the fir trees or the estate chapel. Team activities can be added to the program: wine tasting, an orienteering race, a Burgundy mustard workshop, a murder party, a cooking workshop, sports tournaments, Olympics-style games or a talk on performance management.
Weddings and receptions
For weddings the estate is reserved for one party, either from Friday noon to Sunday noon or from Saturday 9 a.m. to Sunday 5:30 p.m. The Place des Tilleuls suits a reception drink or an outdoor dinner. Café de la Jeanne is an indoor room with an open bar, seated tables and high tables for a cocktail. Le Millésime is the restaurant, with exposed stone, a Burgundy stone floor and a period fireplace. A rooftop overlooks the countryside and the vines, an annex room keeps children occupied, and a private car park serves the estate. Two packages are offered: Authentique, with a reception drink and dinner, and Bohème Chic, with creative cocktails, a gastronomic dinner and a brunch the next day. The estate also opens for family gatherings, birthdays and association meetings.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting rooms are listed with floor area and layouts. Salle du Sentier 1 covers 37 m² and seats 20 in classroom, 16 in U-shape and 20 to 30 in theater. Salle du Sentier 2 covers 44 m² and seats 30 to 40 in theater. Salle du Sentier 3 is the largest working room at 81 m², with 40 to 44 in classroom, 25 to 30 in U-shape and 80 in theater. Le Cep covers 71 m² and seats 40 in theater. La Treille covers 45 m² for 20, Le Chai covers 84 m² for 19, and Les Coteaux covers 30 m² for 19.
Accommodation
The Campus de la Combe has 22 twin rooms, two of them accessible, with television, air conditioning, heating and Wi-Fi in a vintage campus style. The house L'Orée du Bois has five suites with king-size beds. Both buildings can be reserved in full for your group, which suits a residential seminar or a wedding weekend.
Catering
The estate has its own restaurant, Le Millésime, and serves meals and drinks for seminars and receptions. For weddings it offers two packages, and it recommends partner providers for photography, video, music, flowers, childcare, hair and make-up.
History and setting
The site began as a house dating from 1700 that belonged to Bernard de Sassenay, president at the Parliament of Burgundy. Today the estate sits next to the Combe Saint-Joseph and Combe à la Serpent parks, with views over the vines and countryside, and wildlife including deer and foxes.
Getting there
Dijon Ville TGV station is 10 minutes away. Paris is 1 hour 45 minutes by TGV and Lyon is 2 hours. By road, take the A6 and A38 from Paris, or the A6 and A31 exit 47 from Lyon.
