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MOTIEUX, PIERRE ANTOINE (1663-1718) , English translator and dramatist, of French parentage, was born at Rouen on the 25th of February 1663. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he settled in London with his kinsman and godfather, Paul Dominique Motteux. He acted as an auctioneer of pictures, and in 1706 he had a shop in Leadenhall Street for the sale of lace, stuffs, Chinese and Japanese commodities, duly advertised in the Spectator by his friend Richard Steele. He had not been six years in England when he obtained sufficient mastery of the language to edit the monthly The Gentleman
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An excellent life by Henri van Laun is prefixed to the 1880 reprint (4 vols.) of J. G. Lockhart's edition of Motteux's Don Quixote. See also a prefatory note by Charles Whibley in vol. iii. of Sir T. Urquhart's Rabelais (Tudor Translations, 1900), reprinted from a rare 1693-1694 edition. End of Article: MOTIEUX, PIERRE ANTOINE (1663-1718) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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