MENANT, Delphine. Cherbourg 16.10.1850 — Paris 29.7.1932. Mlle. French Iranian Scholar. Daughter of the Assyriologist —> Joachim Menant (1820–1899). Studied under Darmesteter. Ph.D. She worked from 1900 in Musée Guimet, as “chargée de mission dans l’Inde”, where she travelled, together with her mother, in 1900–01, studying Parsis in Bombay and Gujarat. She collaborated with J. J. Modi and other learned Parsis. Her last article appeared in 1914, then she disappears from sources (only death in Wikipédia).

Publications: Les Parsis. Histoire des communautés zoroastriennes de l’Inde. 24+480 p. A.M.G., B. d’ét. 7. P. 1898, English translation 1911..

– “Sur les différentes cérémonies du culte mazdéen”, CRAI 46, 1902, 414; “Les Parsis à la cour d’Akbar”, RHR 50, 1904, 39-52.

– “Rapport sur une mission scientifique dans l’Inde britannique”, Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires, choix de rapports et instructions 10, 1902, 309-351, 9 pl.

– “Parsis et le parsisme”, A.M.G., Bibl. de vulgarisation 16, 1904, 119-174; “Zoroastriens en Perse”, RMM 3, 1907, 193-220, 421-452; “Zoroastre d’après la tradition parse”, A.M.G., Bibl. de vulgarisation 30, 1908, 223-276; other articles.

– “Reforme religieuse et sociale dans l’Inde”, A.M.G., Bibl. de vulgarisation 18. P. 1905, 175-228.

– Anquetil Duperron à Surate. 281 p. A.M.G., Bibl. de vulgarisation 20. P. 1907.

– “Le Rajkumar college de Rajkot”, RMM 6, 1908, 1-51; “Le Collège de chefs à Lahore”, RMM 9, 1909, 44-81; “Les Khojas du Guzarate”, RMM 12, 1910, 214-232, 406-424; “Quelques pages de l’histoire du Bhopal”, RMM 15, 1911, 227-288.

– “Sacerdote zoroastrien à Nausari”, A.M.G., Bibl. de vulgarisation 36, 1912, 69 p.

– “Observations sur deux mss. orientaux de la Bibl. nationale”, JA 11:1, 1913, 619-632, 7 pl.

Sources: M. Epinette, Encyclop. Iranica online 2021 with photo, detailed account of her Indian travel and full bibliography; briefly in French Wikipédia; works mentioned in Catalogue générale de la librairie française 15, 1897-1899 & 22, 1906-1909 & data.bnf.fr.