Antoine Penchenier, orPenchinier, (? ,Montélimar,Dauphiné – 1761,Donzère), was an 18th-century French physician.

Born in Montélimar, he studied medicine inMontpellier where he held a practise. Penchenier wrote the articleGoutte (gout) for volume VII of theEncyclopédie byDiderot andD'Alembert, in which he denounced in the same time charlatans and their powders oforvietan.

After his death, his widow, Delphine Rapin, married Vincent-Amable de Roqueplane, baron de Lestrade, from Montélimar.^[1][2]

• 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.ISBN 0-7294-0368-8

• 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)

• 18th-century French physicians
• Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
• People from Montélimar
• 1761 deaths
• People from Dauphiné (French province)

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