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
Kristine Marie Jensen to have outsold her is Hans Christian Andersen. Over a million copies of the work have now been sold. Kristine Marie Jensen died on 7 February 1923 in Copenhagen. She is buried in Holmens Cemetery. Kristine Marie Jensen Kristine Marie Jensen, better known in Denmark as Frøken Jensen, (1858–1923) was a Danish housekeeper and cookbook writer. She is remembered in particular as the author of the early Danish cookbook "Frøken Jensens Kogebog" ("Miss Jensen's Cookbook"), which has been popular for its traditional recipes since its publication in 1901. The popularity of Jensen's cookbooks is in part a result of the