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Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 1672 – 26 December 1731) was a French author.

Antoine Houdar de la Motte
Born(1672-01-18)18 January 1672
Paris
Died26 December 1731(1731-12-26) (aged 59)
Paris
OccupationChoreographer, writer, librettist, playwright, poet

De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux (Les originaux, ou, l'Italien), was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappists. Four years later he began writing texts for operas and ballets, e.g. L'Europe galante (1697), and tragedies, one of which, Inès de Castro (1723), was an immense success at the Theâtre Français. He was a champion of the moderns in the revived controversy of the ancients and moderns. His Fables nouvelles (1719) was regarded as a modernist manifesto. Anne Dacier had published (1699) a translation of the Iliad, and La Motte, who knew no Greek, made a translation (1714) in verse founded on her work.[1]

He said of his own work: "I have taken the liberty to change what I thought disagreeable in it." He defended the moderns in the Discours sur Homère prefixed to his translation, and in his Réflexions sur la critique (1716). Apart from the merits of the controversy, it was conducted on La Motte's side with a wit and politeness which compared very favourably with his opponents' methods. He was elected to the Académie française in 1710, but soon afterwards went blind. La Motte carried on a correspondence with the duchesse du Maine, and was the friend of Fontenelle. He had the same freedom from prejudice and the same inquiring mind as the latter, and it is on the excellent prose in which his views are expressed that his reputation rests.[1]

His Œuvres du theâtre (2 vols.) appeared in 1730, and his Œuvres (10 vols.) in 1754. See Hippolyte Rigault, Histoire de la querelle des anciens et des modernes (1859).[1]


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Frontispice and title of aa 1730 edition de 1730 (exemplaire de la bibliothèque patrimoniale de Gray)
Frontispice and title of aa 1730 edition de 1730 (exemplaire de la bibliothèque patrimoniale de Gray)



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  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Motte, Antoine Houdar de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 131–132.

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[ru] Ламотт, Антуан Удар де

Антуан Удар де Ламотт (встречается вариант написания Ла Мотт; фр. Antoine Houdar de la Motte; 18 января 1672, Париж — 26 декабря 1731, там же) — французский поэт, драматург и либреттист, член Французской академии (с 1710).


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