Bernadette Menu
{{Short description|French historian and egyptologist (1938–2023)}}
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| birth_place = Amiens, France
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| death_place = Aubenas, France
| nationality = French
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Bernadette Marie Thérèse Menu (née Mangin, 8 May 1938 – 29 May 2023) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist, whose research work on ancient Egypt is widely known.{{Cite web |url=http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/1165 |title=Bernadette Menu, Égypte pharaonique. Nouvelles recherches sur l'histoire juridique, économique et sociale de l'ancienne Égypte |website=journals.openedition.org |accessdate=2018-02-02 |language=fr}} She was mother of the writer Jean-Christophe Menu.{{Cite web |last=xwhos.com |date=2019-10-03 |title=Bernadette Menu - French egyptologist - Whois |url=https://www.xwhos.com/person/bernadette_menu-whois.html |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=xwhos.com |language=en}}
Life and career
Bernadette Menu was Honorary Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III), president of the {{lang|fr|Association internationale pour l’étude du droit de l’Égypte ancienne}} (“International Association for the Study of the Law of Ancient Egypt”) and a professor of Ancient Egyptian at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III and Institut Catholique de Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Bernadette-Menu/31015 |title=Bernadette Menu |author= |date= |website=babelio.com |accessdate=2018-02-02 |language=fr}} Her illustrated pocket book about Ramesses II, {{lang|fr|Ramsès II : Souverain des souverains}}, from the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, has been translated into eight languages, including English.
Menu died in Aubenas on 29 May 2023, at the age of 85.{{cite web |title=Bernadette Marie Therese Mangin |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/cSgxAVUeKT14 |website=MatchID |access-date=23 August 2023}}
Publications
- Le régime juridique des terres et du personnel attaché à la terre dans le Papyrus Wilbour, Publications de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, N° XVII, Institut de papyrologie et d’égyptologie, 1970
- L’Obélisque de la Concorde, Éditions du Lunx, 1987
- Ramsès II : Souverain des souverains, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 344), série Histoire. Éditions Gallimard, 1998
- US edition – Ramesses II: Greatest of the Pharaohs, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1999
- UK edition – Ramesses the Great: Warrior and Builder, ‘New Horizons’ series. Thames & Hudson, 1999
- Vivre en Égypte ancienne, collection « Découvertes Gallimard Texto » (nº 1). Éditions Gallimard, 1998
- Exercices corrigés de la petite grammaire de l’égyptien hiéroglyphique à l’usage des débutants, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1998
- Recherches sur l’histoire juridique, économique et sociale de l’ancienne Égypte. II, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1998
- Égypte pharaonique : Nouvelles recherches sur l’histoire juridique, économique et sociale de l’ancienne Égypte, collection « Droit et cultures » (nº 4). Éditions L’Harmattan, 2004
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