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CANDIDE - Candide, ou l'Optimisme, (; French: [kdid]) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The no...
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| This Voltaire title character is thrown out of the baron's castle with several kicks to his backside |
| A former make-up collection by Lancome shared its name with this Voltaire novel |
| This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter |
| In a Voltaire novel, this title character arrives in Lisbon just in time for the 1755 earthquake |
| Dr. Pangloss teaches this Voltaire title character metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology |
| This Voltaire hero trades philosophy for fertilizer, deciding the key to happiness is simply to "cultivate our garden" |
| Pangloss & Cunegonde are characters in this satire that mocked optimism by portraying a world of folly & danger |
| This Voltaire work includes a shipwreck, torture by the Inquisition, El Dorado & cultivating a garden |
| Doctor Pangloss is the unfailingly optimistic mentor of the title character in this Voltaire work |
| This Voltaire title guy rejects Dr. Pangloss' optimism that all is for the best "in this best of all possible worlds" |
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme, (; French: [kdid]) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". * Candide is characterized by its tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, a |