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Étienne de La Boétie

1530 - 1563

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Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie (French: [etjɛn də la bɔesi] , also [bwati] or [bɔeti]; Occitan: Esteve de La Boetiá; 1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) 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 movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne de La Boétie is the 2nd most popular political scientist, the 509th most popular biography from France (up from 546th in 2019) and the most popular French Political Scientist.

Étienne de La Boétie is most famous for his essay "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," in which he argues that the people of France are enslaved to the tyranny of the monarchy because they have been tricked into thinking that they are free.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 2 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington. After him are Robert A. Dahl, Christian Lous Lange, Francis Fukuyama, Hans Morgenthau, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Georg Jellinek, Johan Galtung, Harold Lasswell, and Ralf Dahrendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 5. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, Jean Bodin, Yasuke, and Grace O'Malley. After him are Jean Nicot, Uesugi Kenshin, Louis, Prince of Condé, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Anastasia Romanovna, Ruy López de Segura, and Jan Kochanowski. Among people deceased in 1563, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Francis, Duke of Guise, Sebastian Castellio, Heinrich Glarean, Andrea Schiavone, Yi Gwang-sik, Martynas Mažvydas, and Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 509 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647), Louise Élisabeth of France (1727), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), Adolphe Adam (1803), Jacques Prévert (1900), and William of Rubruck (1220). After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Carus (230), Christine Lagarde (1956), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Camille Desmoulins (1760), and René Laennec (1781).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In France

Among political scientists born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Maurice Duverger (1917), and Olivier Roy (1949).

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