City of Paris

Welcome to Paris , Bienvenue à Paris !

The poets have always known it: “Rien ne se peut comparer à Paris”! Nothing compares to Paris.

With these words, the poet Eustache Deschamps praised the uniqueness of the city located on the Seine river in a ballad of the 14th century. Innumerable poets, artists and writers were attracted by the beautiful city on the Seine river. One of them was Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 –1891), his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive. Or Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 –1867), his works strongly influenced and changed the literature as he set himself the target to reinvent the meaning of “modernity”. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) is credited with coining the word surrealism andwriting one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947). Paris housed a lot of important French impressionists. Impressionism was a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The principal painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together and influenced each other. Not to forget Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne who also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s.

Nowadays with a population of more than 2.1 Million, Paris is the capital of France and a center of business and science. Paris is multicultural. People come to the capital of France from all over the world. The city is divided into two parts. On the right side of the Seine river, there are administration and business buildings including the stock market, boulevards and stores such as “Galeries Lafayette”, and a lot of shops of popular designers. In addition you will find the office of the President, the Louvre, the Pompidou centre and many artists studios here. The universities and the French Senate are situated on the left side of the Seine river. The Palais de Luxembourg is the home of the Senate and the National Assembly hold their meetings in Palais Bourbon. The historical and cultural districts le Marais and Montmartre, fascinating with their art museums, galleries, little restaurants, lanes, charming cafés and pubs give an impressing view of old Paris.

You are warmly invited to historical Paris !
Au revoir, bye bye and A bientôt à Paris.

Palais des Congrès de Paris

The Palais des Congrès de Paris represents an exceptional location which offers the appropriate environment for communication and exchange of knowledge in rapidly developing fields. The staff of convention professionals provides excellent services and consultancy and guarantees an effective organisation of the congress. The Palais des Congrès de Paris is an ideal venue for the 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. It provides an excellent range of high quality facilities which ensures a balanced congress programme, that will make the WFSBP 2009 Congress a success.

The main meeting rooms are located on the 2nd and 3rd level of the Palais des Congrès de Paris, where also the technical exhibition will take place. The congress registration is based on the 1st level and the poster exhibition will take place on the 2nd and 3rd level of the congress venue. In the exhibition various catering stations will be provided for lunch and coffee breaks.