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
Fran Warren at New York City's acclaimed jazz club, Michael's Pub. She resided in Connecticut until her death on March 4, 2013, her 87th birthday. Her husband, Woody Witt, predeceased her, as did one of her two daughters. Fran Warren Frances Wolfe (March 4, 1926 – March 4, 2013), known by her stage name, Fran Warren, was an American popular singer. She was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of the Bronx, taking singing lessons in the public schools. After some time on a chorus line at New York's Roxy Theater, she auditioned with the big band