Le Moulin de Fourcon can host seminars, study days, team building, weddings and private parties for up to 180 seated guests or 250 for a cocktail reception. The estate combines a 270-square-meter reception hall, two small business lounges, a gîte that sleeps 15 and a wooded park of one hectare on the banks of the Orge. It stands at 47 Route d'Aulnay in Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, in the Essonne, about 35 minutes south of Paris.
Seminars and company events
The mill is privatized for company events: study days, seminars and team building. The 270-square-meter hall serves as the plenary room, seating up to 180, while two business lounges take groups of 6 to 16 for workshops or a board meeting. Video projectors, a screen, Wi-Fi, connected TVs, a sound system and microphones are provided. The gîte living room also has a projector with a built-in screen for smaller sessions.
Breaks can move outdoors to the park and the garden lounges. A tennis court and a pétanque pitch are available for informal team activities. The enclosed private parking takes 100 cars and the site is accessible by coach.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, birthdays, christenings, baby showers, garden parties and private evenings are sold under three formulas. A weekday formula runs from Tuesday to Thursday, a weekend formula from Saturday noon to Sunday 11 a.m., and a full weekend from Friday to Sunday evening. Each includes the wedding pavilion, set with round tables of 180 centimeters and standard chairs, and the gîte for 15 people with bed linen and towels.
Rooms and capacities
The reception hall measures 270 square meters and seats 180 or holds 250 standing. A 25-square-meter catering kitchen sits next to it for the caterer's team. The two business lounges seat 6 to 16. Outdoors, the wooded park runs along the river.
Accommodation
The gîte, rated four épis by Gîtes de France, occupies 300 square meters of the restored mill in two connecting parts. Le Grand Moulin (200 square meters) has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a lounge with fireplace and a dining room facing the waterfall. Le Petit Moulin (100 square meters) has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a lounge with fireplace and a kitchen. With two sofa beds, the gîte sleeps 15. Bedrooms are upstairs, so the gîte is not suitable for wheelchair users.
Catering
The mill has no in-house restaurant. It works with partner caterers, decorators, florists and photographers, and passes on their contacts when the contract is signed.
History and setting
Documents from 1282 and 1299 already mention the mill. In the 14th century it belonged to the Duke of Berry, then to Jean de Montaigu from 1401. Ruined during the Hundred Years' War, the site was sold in 1466 to Denis Boutet, who rebuilt a wheat mill. In 1532 it was given to the Annonciade nuns of Saint-Eutrope, and it was sold as national property during the Revolution. The buildings were fully restored in 2023.
Getting there
By car from Paris, take the A6, then the N104 towards Bordeaux and Nantes, exit 38 (Arpajon). By train, the line to Dourdan stops at La Norville–Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, about 50 minutes from Paris Austerlitz, with a walk to the mill. Massy TGV station is 20 minutes by car. Paris-Orly airport is 25 kilometers away and Paris-Charles de Gaulle 60 kilometers.
