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MOTIEUX, PIERRE ANTOINE (1663-1718)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 931 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
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
 's Journal, which contained verses by himself and by the
chief
  wits of the day. In 1693 he edited the third book, hitherto unpublished, of Sir
Thomas
  Urquhart's translation of Rabelais, and in the next year printed the first and second books of Urquhart's translation. In 1694 he completed Urquhart's
work
  by a translation of the fourth and fifth books, which, although not to be compared with the racy, nervous writing of Urquhart, shows a perfect mastery of colloquial English and an intimate and adequate sense of Rabelais's meaning. The complete translation appeared in five volumes in 1693-1694, and was reprinted as The Whole Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. (2 vols., 1708), described as the
work
  of " Sir T. Urchard, Knight, Mr Motteux and others." His first play, a comedy in five acts entitled Love's Jest, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1696, and next year followed The Loves of Mars and
Venus
 . He wrote other works for the stage of no
great
  consequence. More important than his dramatic work is his History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha (4 vols., 1701; 2nd ed., 1712), " translated from the
original
  by many hands and published by Peter Motteux," one of the most masterly and spirited translations in English. His later years appear to have been given to the shop in Leadenhall Street. He was murdered on the 18th of February 1718 at a
house
  of ill fame in
Star
  Court, near St Clement's Church, London, under circumstances which have never come to light. The manner of his death was no criterion of his life, which appears to have been sober and decent.
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.


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