Fontainebleau
Proper noun
Meaning
A neighbourhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
A census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
A town in the metropolitan area of Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France, home to a royal French palace.
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Eribon 1991, pp. 4–5 Macey 1993, p. 3 Miller 1993, p. 39. His father (1893–1959) was a successful local surgeon, having been born in Fontainebleau before moving to Poitiers, where he set up his own practice and married local woman Anne Malapert.
Fontainebleau, together with the neighbouring commune of Avon and three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 39,713 inhabitants (according to the 2001 census).
France Since 1861, The French Waters and Forests Military Agency (Administration des Eaux et Forêts) put a strong protection on what was called the « artistic reserve » in Fontainebleau State Forest.
History Fontainebleau has been recorded in different Latinised forms, such as, Fons Bleaudi, Fons Bliaudi, Fons Blaadi in the 12th and 13th centuries, with Fontem blahaud being recorded in 1137.
In 1594, Henry IV installed it in the Jardin d'Estang at Fontainebleau where it disappeared in 1713 when the Jardin d'Estange was destroyed.
In addition, it has been noted by David Kimball that the Fontainebleau scene and auto da fé "were the most substantial of several incidents borrowed from a contemporary play on Philip II by Eugène Cormon ".