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France, Ile de France, Paris, Chateau de Fontainebleau, a palatial former royal residence and a UNESCO World Heritage site that is the only French château to have been continuously inhabited by various monarchs for eight centuries from the 12th century through to the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, Chambre Duchess de Etampes which was converted into the Escalier du Roi or the King's Staircase in 1748-1749 by Louis XV.