Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (French:  Académie de Magie Beauxbâtons) is a French witching school, located in the Pyrenees mountains of southern France, that was founded sometime before the 1290s. The school takes many of its students from France, as well as large numbers from Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. The school's coat of arms consists of two golden wands crossed over one another, each shooting three stars.

Castle and Grounds
The Beauxbatons Palace is a beautiful chateau surrounded by majestic gardens and fountains magically created out of the surrounding mountains and has stood for over seven hundred years. In the dining chamber, wood nymphs serenade the students while they eat and, at Christmas, the hall is adorned with great, glittering, non-melting ice sculptures.

It is said that the stunning castle and grounds of this prestigious school were part-funded by alchemist gold, for Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel met at Beauxbatons in their youth, and a magnificent fountain in the middle of the school's park, believed to have healing and beautifying properties, is named for them.

Reputation
Education at Beauxbatons Academy is of a similar caliber to the education of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft in Scotland. Typically, Beauxbatons has enjoyed a warm, cordial relation with Hogwarts, as even during the Triwizard Tournament the two schools have enjoyed a healthy, rather than bitter, rivalry.

Traditions
Students and staff are transported by use of the Beauxbatons carriages. The carriages are light blue and pulled by a dozen winged horses. Despite being used as transportation by Beauxbatons, travelling in an Abraxan horse-drawn giant carriage the size of a house is a breach of international witching laws. The Abraxan horses are only fed single-malt whiskey.

Notable Alumni

 * Fleur Delacour
 * Gabrielle Delacour
 * Luc Millefeuille
 * Nicolas Flamel
 * Olympe Maxime
 * Perenelle Flamel
 * Vincent Duc de Trefle-Picques