Fontainebleau is a suburb of Randburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

Named after the famous French palace called Fontainebleau by the surveyor of the suburb called W.H. Auret Pritchard after a visit to France.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Fontainebleau". Census 2011.
  2. ↑ Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontainebleau,_Gauteng