Collection The classical authors
Étienne de La Boétie
French writer and magistrate, 1530-1563
Works
- Discourse on the Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire). Written in his youth, according to Montaigne; published in part in 1574 and in full in 1576.
- Memorandum on the Edict of January 1562 (Mémoire touchant l'édit de janvier 1562, 1562). Attributed; discovered and published in 1917.
- Twenty-Nine Sonnets (1580). Published by Montaigne in the Essays, in chapter 29 of book I.
- Xenophon's Oeconomicus (La Mesnagerie de Xénophon, 1571). A translation, published by Montaigne.