Une nouvelle version de la Servitude Volontaire

The copy of the Servitude volontaire which is conserved among the papers of Louis Desgraves at the Mériadeck Library in Bordeaux (ms. 2199) has some important variants, especially the absence of the dedications to Guillaume de Lur-Longa and of the praise of the poets of the Pléiade. This copy looks like a derivation from the De Mesmes exemplar, but the above mentioned omissions could demonstrate that the allusions to Lur-Longa and the praise of Ronsard were a mere stratagem, useful to suggest the name of La Boétie and to keep hidden the real author/editor of the Discours.