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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.