Candide Candide. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694–1778), by the time of the Lisbon earthquake, was already a well-established author, known for his satirical wit. He had been made a member of the Académie Française in 1746. He was a deist, a strong proponent of religious freedom, and a critic of tyrannical governments. "Candide" became part of his large, diverse body of philosophical, political and artistic works expressing these views. More specifically, it was a model for the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels called the "contes philosophiques". This genre, of which Voltaire was one of the founders, included previous works of his
Charles Bonaventure Marie Toullier Charles Bonaventure Marie Toullier Charles Bonaventure Marie Toullier, born 21 January 1752 in River, died in Rennes on 19 September 1835, was a French Jurisconsult. He is cited significantly in Proudhon's seminal work "What Is Property?". Raised by his mother, he went to secondary school in Caen, then studied at the University of Rennes, whose faculty includes then Messrs. Loncle, Drouin, Loisel, Auguste-Marie Poullain-Duparc. He earned his doctorate at twenty-five, December 28, 1776, then April 12, 1778, through the competition, the title of associate professor at the University of Rennes. He then completed his studies in the universities of Oxford