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Delphine Menant | |
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| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Ethnologist |
| Father | Joachim Menant |
Delphine Menant (1850–unknown) was a French explorer and ethnologist.
Delphine Menant was born in 1850. She was the daughter of the famous orientalistJoachim Menant and a pupil ofJames Darmesteter.[1]
In 1900, she was sent as an attaché at theGuimet Museum to india to study theParsis.She left with both her mother and a servant and arrived inBombay in October 1900. She then studied the Parsis, their familial and political life, their education, hospitals, religion, and funerary rites. Then on 18 December, she travelled by train to visit Gujarat and study the Parsi communities there. She stayed inUmargam andNargol as well asSanjan andNavsari.
At the beginning of January 1901, she visitedBharuch before leaving forBaroda, where she stayed with theMaharaja of Baroda. Injured in a car accident, she spent three weeks recovering in hospital in Surat. In Surat she also met the family that housedAnquetil-Duperron (from 1758 to 1761), the first European translator of the sacred book of Parsis, theZend-Avesta.
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