- One of the largest royal residences and chateaus in France
Chapel at Chateau de Fontainebleau
- Located in the small town named Fontainebleau
- Placed approximately 70 km southeast of Paris
- Much older than Chateau de Versailles
- Large forests and marvellous hunting grounds around the castle
- Allows an extraordinary information about Renaissance and French royal life
- Constructed in the 12th Century
- Largely enlarged by Henri IV
- Contains 1900 rooms such as aviary, canal, court of the Offices, Deer gallery, a dungeon and gardens
- The Baptism of Louis XIII occured in the courtyard in 1601
- Presently home to the Écoles d’Art Américaines, a school of music, art, and architecture for American students for whom courses are lectured in English by French musicians, professors and artists.
- The school led by Nadia Boulanger, a young composition and harmony professor until 1979, has affected many composers such as Aaron Copland, Beveridge Webster, Elliott Carter, Louise Talma, Samuel Dushkin, Virgil Thomson.
You may also wish to see ;
- Paris hotels in all types
- Paris restaurants in all types
- Paris Attractions such as Arch de Triomphe, Eurodisney (Disneyland Resort Paris), Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum
- Place de la Concorde, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace Of Versailles, the Pantheon , the Museum of Orsay (Museed’Orsay) ,
