Antoine Penchenier Explained

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]}

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.

External links

• Antoine Penchenier on Wikisource
• Natale Gaspare De Santo; Massimo Cirillo; Carmela Bisaccia; Gabriel Richet; Garabed Eknoyan: Nephrological Excerpts From the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. In: Am J Kidney Dis. 2011;57:788-798 (PDF; 2,09 MB)

Notes and References

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