Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and philosopher (born 1530)

Étienne de La Boétie

French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)

Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot…