Montagne's on Voluntary Servitude

This is the story of a man who was engaged with the world outside his tower, capable of passionate friendship and quietly courageous political action. Some of the most fervent passages in the essays concerned Montagne's friendship with Etienne La Boitie,. We met as the young author of the daring political treatise On Voluntary Servitude. He describes their relationship as a perfect friendship, so perfect indeed that it was indivisible - leaving room for no other similar relationship.