L’expression de l’hypothèse dans De la servitude volontaire

This study, which was proposed during a day devoted to the recruitment of university lecturers, was set as a French language exam with the intention of presenting candidates with a basis for the grammatical analysis of a hypothesis. It endeavored to demonstrate principally that the latter, which plays an important part in la Boétie’s work, is comprehensively expressed in a manner that is not literal.