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{{Short description|Fictional French magic school in the Harry Potter universe}} |
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[[File:Coat of arms for the magic school Beauxbatons, as described in the Harry Potter books , "Two crossed, golden wands, each emitting three stars".png|thumb|upright|Coat of arms for the magic school Beauxbâtons as described in the Harry Potter books: "Two crossed, golden wands, each emitting three stars".]] |
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'''Beauxbatons Academy of Magic''' (from [[French language|French]] - "beautiful [[wand]]s"{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=329}}) is a French magic school in the [[Fictional universe of Harry Potter|fictional universe of ''Harry Potter'']] created by the English writer [[J. K. Rowling]]. |
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== Description == |
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In the fourth book of the series, ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' (2000), students from Beauxbâtons arrive at [[Hogwarts]] to take part in the Triwizard Tournament. They arrive in a carriage, brought by winged [[Palomino]] horses.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=329}} |
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Beauxbâtons is described as a [[boarding school]] located in the [[Pyrenees]] mountains of southern France full of ice sculptures and forest [[nymph]]s.{{sfn|Oziewicz|2010|p=13}} |
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Beauxbatons has a preponderance of French students, though Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Luxembourgians and Belgians also attend in large numbers.<ref name="Pottermore-Beauxbatons">{{cite web|title=Pottermore - Beauxbatons Academy of Magic|url=https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/beauxbatons-academy-of-magic|access-date=2016-08-07}}.</ref> |
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The delegation is led by headmistress Madame Olympe Maxime, a half-[[giant]]ess; despite her proportions, she is beautiful, graceful, and well-dressed.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=329}} Also singled out is Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbâtons champion in the Triwizard Tournament, a beautiful girl with silvery hair{{sfn|Eccleshare|2002|p=81}} who is a quarter-[[Magical creatures in Harry Potter|veela]]. |
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== Students == |
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Students of Beauxbâtons 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]].{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=329}} They have good manners and in general are positive, while the unpleasant appearance of Durmstrang students implies their dishonesty.{{sfn|Eccleshare|2002|p=81}} Similarly, the carriage of the Beauxbâtons is well-lit and nice, while the ship, by which the students of Durmstrang arrive, is gloomy.{{sfn|Eccleshare|2002|p=81}} |
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They speak French and stereotypical, heavily accented English.{{sfn|Oziewicz|2010|p=13}}{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=330}} [[:fr:Jean-François Ménard|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".{{sfn|Moore|2000|p=177}} |
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In the screen adaptation ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', Beauxbâtons students are all female and Durmstrang students are all male, in contrast to the books which portray both schools as [[Mixed-sex education|co-educational]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-goblet-fire-movie-book-changes/|title=Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 10 Things The Movie Changed From The Book|date=January 8, 2020|website=ScreenRant}}</ref> |
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== Criticism == |
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The portrayal of the two foreign schools has been criticized as stereotypical.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=329}} On the whole, the students of Beauxbâtons, just as the students of Durmstrang, are homogeneous, not showing the cultural diversity of Hogwarts.{{sfn|Oziewicz|2010|p=11}} |
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The contrast between Durmstrang and Hogwarts can be interpreted as an allusion to the war of the West with the bad from the East, as described in the [[gothic fiction]] of the nineteenth century, and contrast between Beauxbâtons and Hogwarts as an allusion to the competition between the reasonable and decent Great Britain and the licentious and decadent France.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=330}} It has been argued that the appearance on the foreground of these old conflicts allows J K. Rowling to sublimate them, and to make them irrelevant to modern readers.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=330}} |
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== References == |
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== Literature == |
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* {{cite book| first = Julia | last = Eccleshare | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cHjF5K2uVdsC&pg=PA81 | title = Guide to the Harry Potter Novels |year= 2002 |publisher= A&C Black | pages = 81–82| isbn = 9780826453174}} |
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* {{cite book| first = Christina | last = Flotmann | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=N7LJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA328 | title = Ambiguity in "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter": A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths |year= 2014 |publisher= Verlag | pages = 328–331| isbn = 9783839421482}} |
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* {{cite journal |first = Austin | last = Henderson |first2 = Madison | last2 = Kenny |first3 = Cameron | last3 = Lane |first4 = Madison Murray | last4 = Duc Le |url= https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A127/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf#page=87 |title= The Power of the Potter Patriarchy: Feminist Theory and Harry Potter |edition= The mirror of Erised: Seeing a better world through Harry Potter and critical theory |year= 2017 |ref=CITEREFHenderson et al.2017 }} |
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* {{cite journal |first = Miranda | last = Moore |url= http://www.drusha.msk.ru/books.translatabilityofharrypotter.html |title= Translatability of "Harry Potter" |edition= The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists |year= 2000 |volume= 39 |number= 6|pages = 176–177 }} |
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* {{cite journal |first = Marek | last = Oziewicz |title= Representations of Eastern Europe in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy, and JK Rowling's Harry Potter Series | journal = International Research in Children's Literature |edition= International Research in Children's Literature |year= 2010 |volume= 3 |number= 1|pages = 1–14 |doi = 10.3366/ircl.2010.0002}} |
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* {{cite book| first = Marion | last = Rana | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LW3BlG4p6FIC&pg=PA71 | title = Creating Magical Worlds: Otherness and Othering in Harry Potter |year= 2009 |publisher= Peter Lang | isbn = 9783631580714}} |
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