Chateau de Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau!  Home to French kings for eight centuries, Napoleon spent vast sums to restore it, initially to house the pope whom he’d coerced into attending his 1804 coronation (only to crown himself rather than allowing the pope to do it).  Years later, Emperor Napoleon imprisoned that same pope within its walls for eighteen months until …

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