Étienne de La Boétie

✶November 11, 1530

†August 28, 1563

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About their life

Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.

French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)

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