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French author and bookseller From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
André-Joseph Panckoucke (31 January 1703 – 19 January 1753) was a French author and bookseller. He was the first of the Panckoucke family directly or indirectly involved in French publishing (Encyclopédie, Encyclopédie Méthodique, Le Moniteur Universel, Dalloz).
André-Joseph Panckoucke, born in Lille in France, was the son of Pierre Panckoucke and Marie Angélique Hennion.[1]
Firstly trader haberdasher,[1] he founded his bookshop on Place Rihour (fr), Lille, between 1728 and 1733.
On 12 February 1730, he married Marie-Marguerite Gandouin, the daughter of Pierre Gandouin (1672-1743), a Parisian scholar and bookseller whose bookshop was located at Quai des Grands-Augustins (fr) in Paris and named A la belle image.[2] They had 15 children.
André-Joseph published several well-known works: in 1746 the periodical L'abeille flamande (a Flemish historical review stopped after 10 issues), in 1745 La bataille de Fontenoy (Battle of Fontenoy), in 1759 L'heureux citoyen, discours à M. J.J. Rousseau.[3]
He was the father of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke and of Amélie Panckoucke, French writer and salonnière, wife of the journalist, translator and man of letters Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard. He was the father-in-law of the Brussels printer Jean-Louis de Boubers (fr).
He was Jansenist, opposed to the absolutism of royal power and admired Voltaire[4] with whom he corresponded for a time.[2] Died in Lille, he could not have been buried without orders from the Bishop of Tournai.[5]
His widow took over the direction of the family business and developed the publishing catalogue. In 1759, she was prosecuted for publishing Voltaire Précis de l'Ecclésiaste en vers[6] and her son Charles-Joseph Panckoucke was imprisoned for 6 months.
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