Étienne de La Boétie

French aristocrat and proto-anarchist, author of the classic work on tyranny 'Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire' (The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude; 1548). This was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.