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  1. A château that defies the Revolution. What became of the “rightful house” of the Capetian kings in the revolutionary storm? In the early years of the Revolution, Louis XVI was still king and Fontainebleau retained its status as a royal house.

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  3. History Continues. The castle survived two world wars. With the Germans approaching in 1914, it emptied out of a large part of its furniture before becoming a military hospital in 1915 and treating more than a thousand French and sometimes German wounded. The Jeu de Paume was then set up as a mecanotherapy room for rehabilitation of the wounded.

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  4. In 1808 he built a throne room in the heart of a palace that bestowed historic legitimacy to his nascent power, making Fontainebleau the place to visit for both merrymaking and strategic political decisions for the future of his Empire.

  5. While this week of festivities marked a particularly enchanting theatrical interlude in the violence of the civil wars, in 1565 a moat had to be dug around the castle and armed with a drawbridge to counter any possible attack on the king.

  6. Château de Fontainebleau History. The historic Château de Fontainebleau was first built in the twelfth century as a hunting lodge for the French kings, but fell into disrepair by the fifteenth century. In the sixteenth century King Francois I orchestrated its restoration and it was transformed into the castle we know today. This residence has ...

  7. Meet Napoleon I. Napoleon I breathed new life in Fontainebleau after the Revolution. Visiting the chateau he restored, furnished and inhabited, you uncover the statesman, the military leader, the family man and the patron of arts.

  8. Wishing to exorcise the memory of the civil wars after his conversion to Catholicism (25 July 1593), the Béarn native made Fontainebleau the symbol of a time of splendour finally regained, returning to the golden age of Francis I. He called for artists to return to court and greatly enhanced the castle and its gardens with spectacular water ...

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