Courtier
A courtier is étymologiquement a person who remains with the court Souverain. The term took several directions thereafter, being able to indicate, with female, a Prostituée or simply a Concubine, or, for example in the speech of the voluntary constraint of Etienne of Boétie that (or that) which submits to the sovereign, becoming his eyes and its ears, preceding its desires (see quotation).
Quotation
The plowman or the craftsman, for so much controlled that they are, is free in obéissan; but the tyrant sees those which surround it, coquinant and begging his favor. It is not necessary only that they do what it orders, but also that they think what it wants, and often even, to satisfy it, that they prevent also its own desires. It is not very to obey to him, it is necessary to take pleasure to him, one needs that they break, are tormented, get tired to treat its business and since they are liked only of its pleasure, that they sacrifice their taste to his, force their temperament and strip it of their naturalness. One needs that they are continuously attentive with its words, its voice, with its glances, for its least gestures: that their eyes, their feet, their hands are continuously occupied following or imitating all its movements, épier and guessing his wills and discovering its more secret thoughts. Is this there to fortunately live? Is this to even live? Is it nothing in the world more unbearable than this state, I do not say for any man quite born, but still for that who have only the large good sense, or even figure of man? What a condition is more miserable than that of thus living not having anything with oneself and holding of another its ease, its freedom, its body and its life!
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