France

From Absit Omen Lexicon

France, officially the French Republic is located mostly in Western Europe, with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its shape, it is often referred to in French as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").

France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole. France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world. From the 17th to the early 20th century, France built the second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling large portions of first North America and India and then Northwest and Central Africa; Madagascar; Indochina and southeast China; and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.

Magical Culture

Canon information at HP Wiki [1]

Witches and wizards from France quite often attend Beauxbatons for their education, which is situated in Cannes.

In 1974 Belgium faced Wales in the Quidditch World Cup, hosted in France.

There is a small but prestigious wizard gallery in Menton, which once featured Orianne Traverse's paintings in an exhibition.

Marseille Metros are a quidditch team in Marseille.

Nice

There is a gathering of the magical community in the Nice area. Vivienne Thorpe purchased her wand from a private wand collection here, and her family are based in the area. Jacqueline Torret was born there.

La Maison de Lézard

Vivienne Thorpe worked at a private clinic in Nice so that she could stay in France to continue her relationship with Zacharié Roux. The clinic was an independent establishment of Healers who sometimes travelled around rural France to lend their expertise at less capable treatment centers. They were based in Nice for most of the year but went further south in the winter. In her three years with this clinic, Vivienne Thorpe also underwent three month-long expeditions to the Basque territories to work for unprivileged hospitals. Most of her Healing experience in France dealt with common magical illnesses, accidents and the occasional creature attack.

Paris

Home to the French Ministry of Magic.

Johann Storm spent a month at a top potioneer in Paris translating all the contracts into different languages once they were revised. Juliette Vaillancourt worked there as a proper potioneer at the same time.

At Absit Omen

The family of Arianne Desrosiers and Éloi Desrosiers have a set of family owned businesses here, called Desrosiers Entreprises Familiales.

Sacha-Anatole d’Aubigne settled in Paris to write a massive treatise based off his notes entitled “Profonds Arcanes”. The thick tome was heralded as one of the greatest works ever on the subject of the forgotten charms of the world. It also expanded upon the same of Sacha-Anatole, who was already well known in France for being a Maître Duelliste.

Filius Pepper and Jane Pepper, parents of Francis Pepper and Monty Pepper retired to the South of the country.

Elliot Griffin moved there after parting company with Dolly St James

Morgana Hollingbury briefly resided in France during the 1990s.

Sarah Brown and family would regularly make summer trips there during her time at Hogwarts.

Kevin Hargrove worked for the French Ministry as a hitwizard between 2002 and 2008. Maxence Olivier, father of Séraphin Olivier was the French Minister for Magic with a short but commendable premiership, and a seven year stint.

During April 2009, Vedir Prideaux and Johann Storm travelled to France in a carriage pulled by abraxans. They visited the Duerr family who are Johann's maternal relations.

Kronos Malvivicus committed crimes in France.

Isaac Inkwood, father of Josiah Inkwood met his love, Giada Zabini in the vineyards of Bordeaux. David Morrigan met Sophie Hanover there, and Richard Morrigan came into being.

Families

  • Zoe Torret's family originated from the Touret family, a pure-blood family in France in the 13th century.
  • Eveline Chancelier's family are an old Pureblood family, originally French in nationality.
  • The Olivier clan, relatives of Séraphin Olivier are full of groomed and trained politicians, writers, professors and historians of the highest order, and are from France.
  • The Bayard family are around Paris (see Florine Bayard and Thomas Bayard)
  • The Duerr family live around Carnac, though were originally Belgian (see Martijn Duerr)

Characters Born in France

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