André Joseph Panckoucke

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André Joseph Panckoucke (born January 31, 1703 in Lille , † January 19, 1753 in Lille) was a French writer and bookseller .

Life

André Joseph Panckoucke was the son of Pierre Panckoucke and Marie Angélique Hennion. At first he worked as a haberdashery and founded a bookshop in his hometown around 1730. He had a good education and was not satisfied with selling books, but wrote quite a few himself. On February 12, 1730 he married Marie-Marguerite Gandouin, daughter of the Parisian scholar and bookseller Pierre Gandouin. The writer and publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (* 1736; † 1798) and the author and Salonnière Amélie Suard (* 1750; † 1830), wife of the journalist and writer Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard , emerged from this marriage.

Panckoucke, who admired Voltaire and was in correspondence with Voltaire for some time, died in Lille in 1753 at the age of 50. He was a Jansenist and a writer so liberal that his confessor refused to give him the sacraments of death and refused to allow him to be buried properly. The intervention of the Bishop of Tournai was necessary to make his burial possible.

Works

  • Dictionnaire historique et geographique de la châtellenie de Lille , Lille 1733
  • Éléments d'astronomie , Lille 1739
  • Éléments de geographie , Lille 1740
  • Essai sur les philosophes, ou les égarements de la raison sans la foi , Amsterdam 1743 (new edition under the title Usage de la raison , 1753)
  • La Bataille de Fontenoi , Lille 1745 (criticism and parody of Voltaire's poem on the same subject in burlesque verse)
  • Manuel philosophique ou Précis universel des sciences , 2 vols., Lille 1748
  • Dictionnaire des proverbes français , Paris 1749
  • Les Études convenables aux demoiselles contenant la grammaire, la poésie, la rhétorique… , 2 vols., Paris 1749 (font used for a long time in French educational institutions)
  • Amusements mathématiques , 1749
  • Art de désopiler la rate , 1754 (after the author's death a second, expanded edition was published in two volumes, 1773)
  • Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Flandre, contenant les traits remarquables des comtes de Flandre, depuis Baudouin I er jusqu'à Charles II, roi d Espagne , posthumous edition Dunkirk 1762 (with an introduction by Abbé Montlinot)

literature

  • Panckoucke (André-Joseph) . In: Louis-Gabriel Michaud (ed.): Biographie universelle , 2nd edition 1843ff., 32nd vol., P. 62f.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ dates of birth and death according to the information at geneanet.org ; differently, in the biography universelle (32nd vol., p. 62) July 17, 1753 is given as Panckoucke's death date.
personal data
SURNAME Panckoucke, André Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1753
Place of death Lille