Many of the names we bear, as well as names of many of the
places we know and frequent, are derived from something done or
some particular thing connected with the place. For example,
there is a town about thirty-five miles from Paris by the name
of Fontainebleu. It is said that when this town was originally
founded, near the tenth century, that there was a beautiful
fountain there, and from this it took the name of Fontainebleu,
contracted from Fontaine Belle Eau (Fountain of beautiful water).
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