Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke (; 26 December 1780, in

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– 11 July 1844, in

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) was a French writer, printer, bookseller, publisher, translator, and editor. His father was

Charles-Joseph Panckoucke Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (; 26 November 1736 – 19 December 1798) was a French writer and publisher. He was responsible for numerous influential publications of the era, including the literary journal ''Mercure de France'' and the '' Encyclopé ...

Biography

Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke was an editor in Paris during the years 1825–1840, in association with a certain Lecointe. Charles-Louis-Fleury initiated the ''collection Panckoucke'' or ''Bibliothèque latine-française''; this consists of 178 volumes from 1826 to 1839 and 34 volumes from 1842 to 1849 in the form of expensive books with French translations of Latin classics by ancient Roman authors. In 1847, his nephew Henri Agasse de Cresne became the chief executive of the Panckoucke publishing house. C. L. F. Panckoucke married Ernestine Anne Desormeaux, an artist and writer, who translated some of the works of

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. On the ''rue des Poitevins'', the Parisian residence of the Panckoucke-Desormeaux couple was in the ''Hôtel de Thou'', where Goethe,

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and

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stayed and were impressed by the quality of their accommodations. The couple's country residence was an elegant house built in 1710 facing the

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and adjoining the estate of the marquis

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. The couple's son Ernest Panckoucke (1808–1886) was also an editor in the publishing business and controlled ''

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''. During the Second Empire, the ''Moniteur Universel'' was ceded to Paul Dalloz (1829–1887), who married a granddaughter of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke. The Panckoucke publishing house disappeared at the end of the nineteenth century as a cost reduction measure by the publishing house

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. Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke was a collector of antiquities and objets d'art.''Collection d'antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines, d'objets d'art du XV^e siècle, vases et coupes grecs... manuscrits... tableaux et gravures...'' réunis et classés... par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Paris : impr. de Panckoucke, 1841, 40 p., ill. Notably, he made a collection of ancient Greek vases on the theme of

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, which is now housed in the château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Selected publications

*''De l'Exposition, de la prison et de la peine de mort'' (1807) *'' onument desVictoires, conquêtes, désastres, revers et guerres civiles des Français de 1792 à 1815'', par une Société de militaires et de gens de lettres, Charles Théodore Beauvais de Préau, Jacques-Philippe Voïart,

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, Paris, 1820 *''Exemples de style extraits de

Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tra ...

et de Boileau'' (1826) *''Lettres de

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et de J. J. Rousseau à C. J. Panckoucke, éditeur de l'encyclopédie méthodique'' (1828) *''Collection d'antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines, d'objets d'art du XV^e siècle, vases et coupes grecs, manuscrits, tableaux et gravures, réunis et classés par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke'' (1841)
''Œuvres de C. C. Tacite, traduction nouvelle par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke''
(1838) (See

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.) *''Études et dissertations sur C. C. Tacite'' (1842)

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* * * (This is volume 15 of a 25-volume series, dealing with the findings of French savants who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt; the series has about 900 copper-plate engravings printed among the 25 volumes.) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Panckoucke, Charles-Louis-Fleury 1780 births 1844 deaths Charles-Louis-Fleury French male essayists 19th-century French essayists