Bo - batton
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In Rowling's long, partially published, writing on the eleven wizarding schools, she includes the correct pronunciations.

>**Beauxbatons [Bo - batton]**  

>Thought to be situated somewhere in the Pyrenees, visitors speak of the breath-taking beauty of a chateau surrounded by formal gardens and lawns created out of the mountainous landscape by magic. Beauxbatons Academy has a preponderance of French students, though Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Luxembourgians and Belgians also attend in large numbers (both Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have a larger studentship than Hogwarts). 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.

><sub>[Pottermore - Wizarding Schools](https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/beauxbatons-academy-of-magic)</sub>