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Fontainebleau

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Fon·taine·bleau  (fntn-bl, fô-tn-bl)
A town of northern France southeast of Paris. Its chateau (built by Francis I) was long a royal palace and is now the summer residence of the president of France. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes was signed here in 1685. Population: 15,900.
Fontainebleau [ˈfɒntɪnˌbləʊ (French) fɔ̃tɛnblo]
n
(Placename) a town in N France, in the Forest of Fontainebleau: famous for its palace (now a museum), one of the largest royal residences in France, built largely by Francis I (16th century). Pop.: 18 753 (latest est.)


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Otter and her mother, with a natural instinct for the obvious, went to Pont-Aven; Philip and Lawson made up their minds to go to the forest of Fontainebleau, and Miss Chalice knew of a very good hotel at Moret where there was lots of stuff to paint; it was near Paris, and neither Philip nor Lawson was indifferent to the railway fare.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"We came from Fontainebleau on foot; we have not a single penny," he said.
Vendetta by de Balzac, Honore View in context
There were two or three pictures of the forest at Fontainebleau and several of streets in Paris: my first feeling was that they might have been painted by a drunken cabdriver.
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