# Étienne de La Boétie

> A 16th-century French magistrate whose teenage essay on why people submit to tyranny became a quiet bomb in the hands of Protestant rebels — and later, a cornerstone text for anarchists and civil disobedience theorists he never met.

*French judge, writer and philosopher*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1530-11-01
- **Died:** 1563-08-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Étienne de La Boétie was born 1 November 1530 and trained as a magistrate and classicist, moving through the courts and the humanist circles of Renaissance France. He wrote poetry and political theory, but his early treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude asked a question that wouldn't stay buried: why do people obey tyrants when they outnumber them? After his death on 18 August 1563, Huguenots circulated the manuscript as ammunition against the crown. Centuries later, utopians and anti-statists found in it a founding text. But in his lifetime, he was best known for one thing: his friendship with Michel de Montaigne, who made that bond the subject of the most famous essay on friendship ever written.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Business Professionals, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Poetry, #Literature, #Politics, #France, #Europe

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