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Joachim Menant
Joachim Menant (16 April 1820 – 30 August 1899) was a French magistrate and orientalist.
He was born in Cherbourg. He studied law and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the appeals court three years later. But he became best known by his studies on cuneiform inscriptions.
He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in Paris two years later.
His daughter Delphine (
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