For its 2026 edition, Paris Dispute Resolution Day will once again be held at one of the capital's finest private mansions: the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. Behind its discreet façade, this historic monument provides a unique setting where heritage, elegance and modernity come together.
Commissioned by Baroness Adèle de Rothschild and completed in 1878, the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild is now one of Paris's most prestigious private mansions. Listed as a historic monument and owned by the Fondation des Artistes, it continues the tradition of hospitality for which the great Parisian residences were renowned.
A venue for dialogue, reflection and exchange, the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild provides an ideal setting for meaningful discussion. Its historic salons and reception rooms are equally suited to conferences, discussions and networking.
Guided tours, available in French or English for groups of ten, will run throughout Paris Dispute Resolution Day. Simply register when selecting your conference programme.
While the Baroness’s private apartments and reception rooms were emptied of their furnishings — placed in France’s leading museums following her death in 1922 — the Cabinet of Curiosities has been preserved intact, exactly as Adèle de Rothschild wished. More than five hundred works are displayed in this small forty-square-meter room, whose distinctly artistic status is reflected in its rich decor of antique stained glass, walls lined with gilded leather, and a 17th-century tapestry adorning the ceiling.
Inside the Cabinet of Curiosities, display cases hold collections dating from Antiquity to the early 20th century, drawn primarily from Europe, Asia, and the Orient. Among the many objets d’art are carved Chinese jades, antique porcelain, Western and Eastern weaponry, as well as Renaissance and 19th-century sculptures, including Auguste Rodin’s The Alsatian Orphan. Nineteenth-century paintings and drawings by Eugène Delacroix, Ary Scheffer, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Eugène Lami are also displayed around this Cabinet of Curiosities — the last surviving Rothschild residence of its kind in France.
In 1846, Honoré de Balzac purchased the former bathhouse apartment of the Folie Beaujon, a country estate built in the late 18th century in the Plaine Monceau (8th arrondissement) for the great financier Nicolas Beaujon. He moved in with his new wife, Countess Hanska, in May 1850, before dying there on August 18 of that same year. Balzac’s widow continued to live on the property with her daughter and son-in-law, but the house fell into disrepair and the family accumulated debts. In 1882, Countess Hanska sold the house, retaining a life interest (usufruct), to her new neighbor, Adèle de Rothschild, before passing away a few months later. Balzac’s house, by then severely damaged, was demolished to make way for a garden centered around the former rotunda built by the Hanska family. The Balzac Rotunda is decorated with chinoiserie paneling and Japanese silk hangings, embroidered in Kyoto in the 19th century.
After Adèle de Rothschild’s death in 1922, the Balzac Rotunda was preserved exactly as it was, as the Baroness had requested in her will. Fully restored in 2020, this space is now open to the public’s curiosity.
Located at 11 rue Berryer in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, close to the Champs-Élysées, the venue is easily accessible by metro, RER, bus and taxi, as well as from Paris’s main railway stations and airports.
Paris Dispute Resolution Day is defined as much by the quality of its discussions as by the setting in which they take place. The Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild helps make the day an exceptional event, bringing together intellectual excellence, conviviality and Parisian heritage.
