Antoine Penchenier

Antoine Penchenier, or Penchinier, (? , Montélimar – 1761, Donzère), was an 18th-century French physician.

Biography

Born in Montélimar, he studied medicine in Montpellier where he held a practise. Penchenier wrote the article Goutte (gout) for volume VII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert, in which he denounced in the same time charlatans and their powders of orvietan.

After his death, his widow, Delphine Rapin, married Vincent-Amable de Roqueplane, baron de Lestrade, from Montélimar[1][2]

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References
  1. Frank A. Kafker (1990). "Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de " discours " de l'Encyclopédie". Persée. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  2. "Origin of lastname Penchenier, country of origin: France". Heraldrys Institute of Rome. Retrieved 24 August 2016..

Bibliography
  • Frank Arthur Kafker, The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, p. 295-6. ISBN 0-7294-0368-8
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