Étienne de La Boétie

Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his intense and intimate friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.

1 November 1530

Born on the same birth day (1 November): 11th Dalai Lama • A. R. Gurney • Fabrice Luchini • Gustav IV Adolf • Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg • Jeongyeon • Louis, Grand Dauphin • Marcel Ophuls • Milan Dudić • Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) • Perikles Ioannidis • Ramesh Chandra Lahoti • Reece Brown (footballer, born 1991) • Ric Grech • Sherwin Campbell • Toni Collette