Le Molière can host seminars, conferences, press days, showrooms, product launches and cocktails for up to 170 guests. The venue offers 300 m² on two levels, which can be hired together or separately. It occupies a hôtel particulier at 40 rue de Richelieu, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, a short walk from the Palais Royal and the Louvre.
Seminars and company events
Event agencies working in fashion, beauty, interior design, food and art are the main clients, but companies also book the venue for seminars, conferences, workshops and sub-committee meetings. For a conference, the ground floor seats 50 and the first floor 30. In theatre style, the venue lists 170 seats. A U-shape or boardroom layout takes 40 people, 20 on each level, which suits a two-group workshop.
Other formats listed by the venue include press rooms, trade shows, product launches, pop-up shops, exhibitions, photo and film shoots, and showrooms during Fashion Week. The ground floor alone can be booked for a launch or a press presentation, or the whole building for a larger programme.
Weddings and receptions
The venue does not sell wedding packages. It does host private dinners and evening receptions. Seated dinners take 60 guests on the ground floor and 50 upstairs. An evening party is limited to the ground floor, for 125 guests, with music capped at 80 dB and a finish by 1 am at the latest.
Rooms and capacities
On the ground floor, two display windows shaped like white cubes face rue de Richelieu. They can hold a pop-up shop, an installation or a product display visible from the street. Behind them, two reception rooms with a ceiling height of 3.50 m serve for launches, cocktails, press conferences, shoots and private dinners.
The first floor is a run of five salons laid out like a circular apartment. It can be hired separately from the ground floor for exhibitions, press presentations, meetings, fashion shows, dressing rooms or a quiet interview corner.
For a cocktail, the total is 170 guests: 125 on the ground floor and 45 upstairs. Equipment includes spotlights, a kitchen, Wi-Fi, heating, speakers on the ground floor and storage space. Deliveries reach the ground floor at street level from rue de Richelieu. The first floor is reached by an internal staircase 120 cm wide, which matters for furniture and set pieces.
Catering
The venue lists a kitchen among its equipment. The official site does not name an in-house caterer, so ask the team which caterers can work on site.
History and setting
The building was the last home of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière. Its facade, roof and staircase are listed as historic monuments, and the windows look onto the Molière fountain, a monument to the playwright. Neighbours include the Comédie-Française, the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and the Banque de France.
Getting there
The nearest metro stops are Pyramides (lines 7 and 14) and Palais Royal Musée du Louvre (line 1). Buses 39, 48 and 73 stop at Palais Royal Musée du Louvre. For cars, the venue points to three car parks: Carrousel du Louvre at 99 rue de Rivoli (450 m), Pyramides at 15 rue des Pyramides (300 m) and Croix des Petits Champs at no. 14 of that street (350 m).
