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 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.
Selected works
Dictionnaire géographique de la châtellenie de Lille (1723),[7]
L'abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Flandre contenant les traits remarquables de l'histoire des comtes de Flandre depuis Baudouin Ier dit Bras de fer, jusqu'à Charles II, roi d'Espagne (1762),[9]
Dictionnaire des proverbes françois et des façons de parler comiques (1748),[10]
Etudes convenables aux demoiselles contenant la grammaire, la poésie, la réthorique (1749).[11]
^Watts, George B. (1954), "Voltaire and Charles Joseph Panckoucke", Kentucky Foreign Romance Quarterly, 1 (4): 179–197, doi:10.1080/00230332.1954.9933596
^Dictionnaire des journalistes. "Panckoucke". Institut des Sciences de l'Homme. Retrieved 21 March 2014.