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Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau is a town south-east of Paris, France, surrounded by a large forest and known for its royal palace, rebuilt by Francis I in the sixteenth century and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Napoleon held Pope Pius VII there from 1812 to 1814, extracting the short-lived Concordat of Fontainebleau in 1813, and he signed his first abdication in the palace in 1814.

Fontainebleau
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