Information AboutCharles-joseph Panckoucke |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CHARLES-JOSEPH PANCKOUCKE | |
| french publishers people | |
| panckoucke, charles-joseph | |
| people from nord-pas-de-calais | |
| newspaper editors of the french revolution | |
| 1736 births | |
| 1798 deaths | |
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He was born in Lille ; his father Andre Joseph Panckoucke (1700-1753) was a writer and book printer there. Charles-Joseph went to Paris in 1754 . He first suggested to Diderot the preparation of a supplement to the ''Encyclopédie'' in 1769, but was turned down. Nevertheless, Panckoucke secured a license to publish the supplement in 1775, and it appeared as five volumes in 1776 and 1777. Panckoucke also published two volumes of index to the ''Encyclopédie'', prepared by Pierre Mouchon , and appearing in 1780 . Panckoucke's great effort was the '' Encyclopédie Méthodique '', an expansion and rearrangement of the Encyclopédie, with the subject matter organized by subject area rather than alphabetically. He received the license in 1780, and published a first prospectus in 1782. The work outlived him, with his daughter Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse (widow of Panckoucke partner Henri Agasse ) publishing the last of 166 volumes in 1832. Panckouke also published the magazines '' Mercure De France '', and established the '' Moniteur '' in November 1789. His son Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke continued in the writing and publishing business as well. REFERENCE
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