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.
[2] She was mother of the writer Jean-Christophe Menu.
[3] Bernadette Menu was Honorary Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III), president of the 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.
[4] Her illustrated pocket book about Ramesses II, 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.