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Fountainebleau Chateau Fountainebleau Chateau is only a 1 hour train ride from Paris. The Royal Château of Fountainebleau (in the Seine-et-Marne département) is the largest of the French royal châteaux. The older château on this site was already used in the latter part of the 12th century by King Louis VII, for whom Thomas Becket consecrated the chapel. The creator of the present edifice was Francis I, under whom the architect Gilles le Breton erected most of the buildings of the Cour Ovale, including the Porte Dorée, its southern entrance. The king also invited the architect Sebastiano Serlio to France, and Leonardo da Vinci. The Gallery of Francis I, with its frescoes framed in stucco by Rosso Fiorentino, carried out between 1522 and 1540, was the first great decorated gallery built in France. Broadly speaking, at Fountainebleau the Renaissance was introduced to France. |
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