Talk:Étienne de La Boétie

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[edit] Name Pronunciation

can someone please write his name in IPO; it's a tricky one (ends more like "see" than "tee") Coughinink 12:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 ? La Boétie's name is properly pronounced Bwettie (with a hard t) in the Périgord dialect of the region in which La Boétie lived. See footnote #1 of Rothbard's introduction. Geoffrey Allan Plauche 03:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhpas it is worth noting that according to Montaingne he disavowed his views expressed in the tract on voluntary servitude.