Peter Anthony Motteux
1663–1718
French-born journalist and translator. Of a Huguenot family. Emigrated to London in 1685, becoming an English citizen in 1686. Published a revision of Thomas Urquhart’s translation of the first three books of Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, and translated the fourth and fifth books.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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