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==Notable people== * [[Aga Khan IV]], international business magnate * [[Alfonso XIII]], king of Spain, after his abdication * [[Raoul Anglès]] (1887–1967), politician *[[Arnold Bennett]] (1867–1931), writer, lived in Fontainebleau from 1908 to 1912 * [[Rosa Bonheur]], a 19th-century artist * [[Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia]] (1881–1985), art critic, first wife of painter [[Francis Picabia]] was born in Fontainebleau * [[Christina, Queen of Sweden]]; her lover, [[Monaldeschi|Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi]], was murdered in Fontainebleau * [[Claude-François Denecourt|Claude-François Denencourt]], inventor of modern hiking and nature tourism * [[Jean-Claude Gorgy]], French playwright born in Fontainebleu * [[Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse]] (1826–1898), conchologist, lived and died at [[Château d'Argeville]], near Fontainebleau * [[Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1954)|Ernst August, Prince of Hanover]] and [[Caroline, Princess of Hanover]] * [[Lin Fengmian]], Chinese painter who advocated the synthesis of Western techniques and Eastern traditions and later became known as the father of modern Chinese painting, brushed up on his French in Fontainebleau before moving on to study art at the [[Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts]] of Paris * [[Francis I of France]], built a large part of the palace * [[Francis II of France]], born in Fontainebleau * [[Henry III of France]], born in Fontainebleau * [[Henry IV of France]], built a part of the palace * [[Anna Elizabeth Klumpke]], an early twentieth-century artist * [[Pierre Levassor]] (1808–1870), actor * [[Pascal Lecocq]], born in 1958, fine art painter, study at École Comairas (1973–1977) and exhibit for the 1st time in 1977 ; * [[Louis XIII]], king of France, born in Fontainebleau * [[Louis XIV]] of France, built a part of the palace * [[Louis XV]], king of France, built a part of the palace * [[Louis XVI]] and [[Marie Antoinette]], king and queen of France, built a part of the palace * [[Mark Maggiori]], lead vocalist of [[Pleymo]] * [[Katherine Mansfield]] (1888–1923), New Zealander short story writer, died in Fontainebleau * [[Oscar Milosz]], poet, novelist, dramatist and Lithuanian diplomat died in Fontainebleau in 1939. * [[Louis Victoire Lux de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem]] (1762–1792), French military man * [[Napoleon]] * [[Napoleon III]] * [[Pope Pius VII]], lived (as a prisoner of Napoleon) in the palace * [[Philip IV of France]], born and died in Fontainebleau * [[Django Reinhardt]], died near Fontainebleau, in [[Samois-sur-Seine]] * [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848ce/chapter15.html|title=Fontainebleau -Village Communities of Painters|access-date=5 October 2016|archive-date=5 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005200654/https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848ce/chapter15.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Romain Thievin]], racing driver, born in Fontainebleau * [[Lilian Thuram]], [[Association football|football]] player, World Cup and European Championship winner
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