About Antoine Penchenier
Lived 1720 – 1761 (aged 40–41). Antoine Penchenier was a French physician and encyclopédistes.
Antoine Penchenier, or Penchinier, (? , Montélimar, Dauphiné – 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.
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Who was Antoine Penchenier?
French physician
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Antoine Penchenier was born in 1720 in Montélimar.
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Antoine Penchenier died in 1761 in Donzère.
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Antoine Penchenier was a physician and encyclopédistes.
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