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
Marie Manning (writer) Rome's 1937 revue "Pins and Needles" (later made famous by Barbra Streisand): "Oh Beatrice Fairfax, give me the bare facts,"<br> "How do you make them fall?"<br> "If you don't save me, the things the Lord gave me"<br> "Never will be any use to me at all." There is a poem by Kenneth Fearing entitled "Dear Beatrice Fairfax" in which he metaphorically lambasts social status as product guarantees. Marie Manning (writer) Marie Manning (January 22, 1872 —November 28, 1945) was a newspaper columnist and novelist in the early 20th century. She wrote the first newspaper advice column, "Dear Beatrice Fairfax", in