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 Bennett Into College" (1989), "The Doctor" (1991), "Plymouth" (1991), "New Nightmare" (1994), "Foxfire" (1996), "The Next Best Thing" (2000) and "Jessabelle" (2014). From 1996 to 2003, she was head of the performance program in the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts. Fran Bennett Fran Bennett (born August 14, 1937) is an American actress, known for her works on television. Bennett was born in Malvern, Arkansas. She is not to be confused with the 1950s actress of the same name (born Frances Eugenia Leonard, November 25, 1934, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), who appeared as the daughter of Elizabeth