LA FORÊT DE FONTAINEBLEAU, PRISÉE DES SPORTIFS ET DES AMOUREUX DE LA NATURE
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Only sixty kilometres from Paris, the forest of Fontainebleau stretches from Melun to Nemours - from north to south - and from Moret sur Loing to Milly-la-Forêt - from east to west. At the origin of royal Forest, called the Middle Ages "Forest of beer", it served as hunting territory for successive monarchs. Its subsoil is mainly composed of sand «de Fontainebleau», a tertiary marine deposit of the lower Stampien - 35 million years - consolidated locally in sandstone - first exploitation from the th century. Above, filed the limestone, itself covered, in the quaternary, de. With erosion, these masses allowed the flow of water, the origin of gorges and chaos. The forest, a sanctuary with a very rich flora and fauna, is a biosphere reserve M.A.B. - Man and Biosphere - UNESCO since December 8, 1998. Populated with three main species - oak, Scots pine and beech - it welcomes deer, deer, boar, fox, badgers… and a very large variety of insects sometimes rare in Paris. Facing the rocks of the forest of Fontainebleau in the middle of sand dunes and gorges like that of the Gorge aux Loups. A state of spirit reconciling the city with its earth origins.
