1530 - 1563
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 intense and intimate friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne de La Boétie has received more than 305,416 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Étienne de La Boétie is the 2nd most popular political scientist (up from 3rd in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from France (down from 477th 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, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 2 out of 29. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington. After him are Francis Fukuyama, Harold Lasswell, Georg Jellinek, Hans Morgenthau, Christian Lous Lange, Benedict Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf, Robert A. Dahl, Johan Galtung, and Maurice Duverger.
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 1
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 2
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 3
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 4
1851 - 1911
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 5
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 6
1869 - 1938
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 7
1936 - 2015
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 8
1929 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 9
1915 - 2014
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 10
1930 - 2024
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1530, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 3. Before him are Ivan the Terrible and Jean Bodin. After him are Uesugi Kenshin, Anastasia Romanovna, Jean Nicot, Yasuke, Louis, Prince of Condé, Ruy López de Segura, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, and Christopher Báthory. Among people deceased in 1563, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Francis, Duke of Guise, Sebastian Castellio, Andrea Schiavone, Heinrich Glarean, Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, and Martynas Mažvydas.
1530 - 1584
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 1
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 2
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 3
1530 - 1578
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 4
1530 - 1560
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 5
1530 - 1605
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 6
1530 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 7
1530 - 1569
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 8
1530 - 1580
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 9
1530 - 1573
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 10
1530 - 1584
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 11
1530 - 1581
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 12
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1
1519 - 1563
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 2
1515 - 1563
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 3
1510 - 1563
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 4
1488 - 1563
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 5
1510 - 1563
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 6
1510 - 1563
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 7
Among people born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 504 out of 6,011. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Pierre Laval (1883), Albert Lebrun (1871), Giambologna (1529), Paul Barras (1755), and Lucien Bonaparte (1775). After him are Léon Blum (1872), Louis Aragon (1897), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Patrick Modiano (1945), and Philippe Pinel (1745).
1811 - 1877
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 498
1883 - 1945
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 499
1871 - 1950
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 500
1529 - 1608
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 501
1755 - 1829
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 502
1775 - 1840
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 503
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 504
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 505
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 506
1644 - 1710
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 507
1676 - 1744
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 508
1945 - Present
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 509
1745 - 1826
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 510
Among political scientists born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Maurice Duverger (1917) and Olivier Roy (1949).
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 3