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POLITICAL SCIENTIST

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 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 302,490 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

Among political scientists, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 2 out of 29Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 3Before 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 1After him are Francis, Duke of Guise, Sebastian Castellio, Andrea Schiavone, Heinrich Glarean, Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, and Martynas Mažvydas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 504 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In France

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