What is Étienne de La Boétie?
Étienne de La Boétie, is a [[French people|French]] writer and poet. He was a [[humanist]]. He was born November 1, 1530 in [[Sarlat-la-Canéda]], a city in the south-east of Périgord, and he died August 18, 1563 in Germignan, in the town of Taillan-Médoc, near [[Bordeaux]]. La Boétie is famous for his Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. From 1558 he was a close friend of [[Montaigne]], who paid him posthumous homage in his Essays.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://philosophynow.org/issues/136/Etienne_de_la_Boetie_1530-1563 | title=Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) &#124; Issue 136 &#124; Philosophy Now }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nonviolent-resistance.info/exhibitions/eng/boetie/timeline.htm | title=Étienne de la Boétie - Against Voluntary Servitude - Discourse on the fall of tyrants }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://etiennedelaboetie.net/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922124240/http://etiennedelaboetie.net/ | archive-date=2010-09-22 | title=Etienne de la Boétie - Home }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6007259A/%C3%89tienne_de_La_Bo%C3%A9tie | title=Étienne de la Boétie }}</ref> == References == <references /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Boetie, Etienne de La}} [[Category:French poets]] [[Category:Humanists]] [[Category:1530 births]] [[Category:1563 deaths]]