Costume design for the Students of Beauxbatons, used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at the Making of Harry Potter Tour, Warner Brothers Studio
Beauxbatons (from French - "beautiful wands") is a French magic school in the fictional universe of Harry Potter created by the English writer J. K. Rowling. In the fourth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, students from Beauxbatons arrive at Hogwarts to take part in the Triwizard Tournament. They arrive in a carriage, brought by winged Palomino horses.[1] Beauxbatons is located somewhere in Southern France and is described as a boarding school with ice sculptures and forest nymphs.[2] The delegation is led by headmistress madame Olympe Maxime, a half-giantess; despite her proportions, she is beautiful, graceful, and well-dressed.[1] Apart from her, the only person from Beauxbatons who stands out is Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons champion on Triwizard Tournament, a beautiful girl with silvery hair.[3] She is a quarter-veela, which is a magic creature looking sometimes like an exceptionally beautiful girl, and sometimes like a harpy, and having a power to bewitch and enchant men. Students of Beauxbatons are described rather stereotypically, mainly as beautiful long-haired girls and attractive boys, in contrast with the serious and surly students from the Eastern European school Durmstrang. They have good manners and in general are positive, while the unpleasant appearance of Durmstrang students implies their dishonesty. Similarly, the carriage of the Beauxbatons is well-lit and nice, while the ship, by which the students of Durmstrang arrive, is gloomy. Nevertheless, the French students are arrogant and over-cultured, and care too much about their looks; in contrast with the Durmstrang students, they are not impressed by Hogwarts. They speak Franglais, which is quite parodic. Jean-François Ménard, the translator of Harry Potter into French, wrote Madame Maxime as arrogant with very correct, aristocratic speech, while Fleur's tone was more distrustful. Ménard made these choices because "you cannot write French with a French accent
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