Milly-la-Forêt
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Milly-la-Forêt is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region in northern France. A former Gaul village, its history can be traced back to before Christ. It is on the departmental
The town hall in Milly-la-Forêt
The market hall
Chapelle Saint-Blaise-des-Simples
Forest of Fontainebleau
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The forest of Fontainebleau is a mixed deciduous forest lying sixty kilometres southeast of Paris, France. It is located primarily in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau in the southwestern part of th
Milly-la-Forêt
…in northern France. A former Gaul village, its history can be traced back to before Christ. It is on the departmental border with Seine-et-Marne. The Forest of Fontainebleau, in the western end of which Milly-la-Forêt lies, is composed of the Oligocene Fontainebleau sands, which are a marine deposit, laid down in an intertidal…
Lattice-like etchings from a cave near Boissy-aux-Cailles, Seine-et-Marne
Fontainebleau and Avon in the 18th century, in Trudaine's Atlas (National Archives)
Jules Le Coeur and his dogs in the forest of Fontainebleau, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1866
Painters at Rest, Fontainebleau, Xavier Leprince, c. 1824