Le Poudrier can host seminars, congresses, training courses, product launches, galas and weddings, with a main hall that seats up to 110 guests and a mezzanine for 30 more. The estate covers 4 hectares on the banks of the Vienne, 2 km from the center of Limoges, and offers on-site accommodation in guest rooms, attic rooms, chalets and a tree house.
Seminars and company events
Three indoor rooms serve business events. The Salle du Moulin, 200 m², takes seminars, congresses, cocktails and meals, set up in U shape, cabaret or theater style. The Salle du Loup, 125 m², opens onto a covered porch and suits smaller meetings or workshops. The Salle Whisper, 80 m², is a third room for breakout sessions. Outdoors, the riverbank and an open-air theater can be used for team activities and presentations.
Listed equipment includes video, a touch-screen presentation display, a sound system and internet access. The estate's team handles welcome, breaks, meals and cocktails, and can arrange group workshops or team-building activities on request, working with local partners for entertainment.
The estate also hosts retirement parties, gala evenings, product launches, fashion shows, graduation parties and Christmas or year-end dinners. Its grounds are offered for film shoots and photo sessions, and multi-day courses in music, painting, writing or well-being.
Weddings and receptions
A secular ceremony can take place in the open-air theater. The vin d'honneur is served in the park by the Vienne, under lime trees. Dinner is held in the Salle du Moulin, which seats up to 110 guests and leaves room for a dance floor, with the mezzanine adding 30 seats, for instance for children. If the weather turns, marquees, a star tent, the porch and the Salle du Loup provide fallback options. The next day, the estate can serve breakfast or a brunch.
Couples may work with the estate's service team or choose their own caterer; in that case the estate prepares a quote covering room hire, tableware, linen and service as needed. A pricing guide for hire of the estate is provided on request, along with a list of partners for music and decoration.
Rooms and capacities
The Salle du Moulin (200 m²) seats 110 for a dinner with a dance floor, plus 30 on the mezzanine. The Salle du Loup covers 125 m² with its porch, and the Salle Whisper 80 m². Seated capacities for these two rooms are not published.
Accommodation
The estate lists 4 guest rooms in the former gardener's house, rebuilt in 1945, each with its own bathroom, plus a breakfast room and a small kitchen. The Loup building has 6 attic rooms, each with a double bed, a sofa bed that converts into bunks and a private bathroom, an apartment with a balcony over the river and a ground-floor room adapted for guests with reduced mobility. Four chalets with kitchenettes and terraces and a heated tree house for two, 4 m above the ground, complete the offer.
Catering
The estate's team organizes welcome coffee, breaks, lunches, cocktails and dinners for business events, and the vin d'honneur and wedding meal for couples who do not bring their own caterer.
History and setting
The site began in the 16th century as a flour mill with two paddle wheels that fed Limoges downstream. Under Louis XIV it became a royal gunpowder mill, which gave the estate its name. It later served as a porcelain factory, a hydroelectric plant and a spinning mill. In 1848 it was given as a wedding gift to Philippine, daughter of Esmoing de Lavaublanche, and it later passed to the Boucheron family of spinners. Since 1998, Jacques Vigneras and Paolo Del Vecchio have restored it. The grounds include an Italian-inspired garden, fountains, statues and shared vegetable gardens.
Getting there
The estate is 2 km from Limoges and has private parking for guests.
