Fontainebleau Forest. The forest of Fontainebleau is a mixed deciduous forest lying sixty kilometres southeast of Paris, France. It is located primarily in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau in the southwestern part of the department of Seine-et-Marne. Most of it also lies in the canton of Fontainebleau, although parts of it extend into adjoining cantons, and even as far west as the town of Milly-la-Forêt in the neighboring department, Essonne. Several communes lie within the forest, notably the towns of Fontainebleau and Avon. The forest has an area of 250 km 2. The most common trees in the forest are: oak, Scots pine, and European beech. Three thousand species of mushrooms have been discovered. The forest is also home to approximately seven thousand animal species, five thousand of which are insects. Tor-grass. Service tree of Fontainebleau, which is under national protection. Snowy mespilus, under national protection. Common juniper. Orchids Violet limodore. Red helleborine, under national protection. Meadow rue, under national protection. Peach-leaved bellflower. Wild madder. Burnet rose. Cranesbill. Vincetoxicum. Red feather clover, under national protection. Great spotted woodpecker. Lesser spotted woodpecker. Great tit. Blue tit. Chiffchaff. Willow warbler. Bonelli's warbler. Blackcap. The place is also known for peculiar rock shapes which resemble elephant, tortoise, crocodile which are believed to be natural formation. The painters of the Barbizon School found the forest a convenient location for their unadorned, realist depictions of nature. The forest is the main scene of action of the trilogy, Les Fourmis by Bernard Werber. In the novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Sir Percy and Margeurite St Just wander in this forest during the happy period of their courtship. Act I of Verdi's opera, Don Carlos, is set in the forest of Fontainebleau. A scene in the 1852 play The Corsican Brothers, where a duel takes place, is set in the forest of Fontainebleau. Chapter 6 of the ground-breaking film serial Les Vampires takes place in Fontainebleau Forest. The map Castle Rock in the game Alliance of Valiant Arms takes place in the Fontainebleau Forest. The Santalune Forest location in Pokémon X and Y is based loosely on Fontainebleau Forest. DC's Legends of Tomorrow battle an enhanced Baron Krieger and several Nazis after the Waverider lands in the Fontainebleau Forest. Louis Malle's famous autobiographical film, Au Revoir Les Enfants, is filmed and set in and around Fontainebleau.