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André-Joseph Panckoucke
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).
Biography.
André-Joseph Panckoucke, born in Lille in France, was the son of Pierre Panckoucke and Marie Angélique Hennion.
Firstly trader haberdasher, he founded his bookshop on Place Rihour (), Lille, between 1728 and 1733
Infantry Regiment and of Marie-Catherine Gavois. He was the brother of Claude-René-Denis de Boubers, named Denis de Boubers, "one of the most remarkable typographer of France", and of Henri-François de Boubers, printer.
Son-in-law in first marriage (1752) of Louis-François Barbier, bookseller in Arras, his second wife (1759) was the daughter of the Lille bookseller André-Joseph Panckoucke. He entered the selected circle of the founder of the eighteenth century