FONTAINEBLEAU

(48° 24’ N., 2° 42’ E.), town, Seine-et-Marne, France; surrounded by picturesque forest; favorite resort of Fr. landscape painters; magnificent palace, from Middle Ages to abdication of Napoleon in 1814 one of chief residences of kings of France; revocation of Edict of Nantes signed here, 1685; sandstone quarries; porcelain. Pop. 14,200.