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
Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve the 13th ecological reserve to be created in Quebec. Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve (French: "Réserve écologique Irénée-Marie") is an ecological reserve in the unorganized territory of Rivière-de-la-Savane, in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It was established on October 31, 1985. The Ecological Reserve protects a forest of Eastern white pine, red pine and pine gray. The name commemorates Joseph Caron (1889-1960), better known as Brother Irénée-Marie of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, one of the colleagues of brother Marie-Victorin. The reserve is located approximately west of Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, in the Matawin River drainage basin, and surrounded by