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Étienne de La Boétie (1530 - 1563) "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" the most relevant and accomplished text "written in honor of liberty against tyrants" wrote Montaigne.<div> An invective against the cowardice of peoples too quick to surrender their weapons to tyranny and to slumber in obedience. La Boétie addresses those who allow themselves to be enslaved with an appeal to common sense, in which the breath of Liberty resonates.</div><div><br></div><div> Jérôme Sanson (interpreter): "The literary form of this text guides the interpreter's breath to where the densities of language are transformed into jewels."</div><div><br></div>