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1 CANDIDEV oltaire1759 1998, Electronic Scholarly Publishing electronic edition is made freely available for scholarly oreducational purposes, provided that this copyright notice isincluded. The manuscript may not be reprinted or redistributed forcommercial purposes without OF CONTENTSCHAPTER 1 ..1 How CANDIDE Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How HeWas Driven ThenceCHAPTER 2 ..3 What Befell CANDIDE among the BulgariansCHAPTER 3 ..6 How CANDIDE Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell HimAfterwardCHAPTER 4 ..8 How CANDIDE Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and WhatCHAPTER 5.

2 11A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell , CANDIDE , and James, the AnabaptistCHAPTER 6 ..14 How the Portuguese Made a Superb Auto-De-Fe to Prevent AnyFuture Earthquakes, and How CANDIDE Underwent PublicFlagellationCHAPTER 7 ..16 How the Old Woman Took Care Of CANDIDE , and How He Found theObject of His LoveCHAPTER 8 ..18 Cunegund s StoryCHAPTER 9 ..21 What Happened to Cunegund, CANDIDE , the Grand Inquisitor, and theJewCHAPTER 10 ..23In What Distress CANDIDE , Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive atCadiz, and Of Their EmbarkationCHAPTER 11 ..25 The History of the Old WomanivCHAPTER 12.

3 28 The Adventures of the Old Woman ContinuedCHAPTER 13 ..32 How CANDIDE Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the OldWomanCHAPTER 14 ..35 The Reception CANDIDE and Cacambo Met with among the Jesuits inParaguayCHAPTER 15 ..38 How CANDIDE Killed the Brother of His Dear CunegundCHAPTER 16 ..40 What Happened to Our Two Travelers with Two Girls, Two Monkeys,and the Savages, Called OreillonsCHAPTER 17 ..44 CANDIDE and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-WhatThey Saw ThereCHAPTER 18 ..48 What They Saw in the Country of El DoradoCHAPTER 19 ..53 What Happened to Them at Surinam, and How CANDIDE BecameAcquainted with MartinCHAPTER 20.

4 58 What Befell CANDIDE and Martin on Their PassageCHAPTER 21 ..61 CANDIDE and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, DrawNear to the Coast of FranceCHAPTER 22 ..63 What Happened to CANDIDE and Martin in FranceCHAPTER 23 ..72 CANDIDE and Martin Touch upon the English Coast-What They SeeTherevCHAPTER 24 ..74Of Pacquette and Friar GirofleeCHAPTER 25 ..78 CANDIDE and Martin Pay a Visit to Seignor Pococurante, a NobleVenetianCHAPTER 26 ..83 CANDIDE and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers-Who They WereCHAPTER 27 ..86 CANDIDE s Voyage to ConstantinopleCHAPTER 28 ..90 What Befell CANDIDE , Cunegund, Pangloss, Martin, 29 Manner CANDIDE Found Miss Cunegund and the Old WomanAgainCHAPTER 30.

5 94 Conclusionvi1 CHAPTER 1 How CANDIDE Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castleand How He Was Driven ThenceIn the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baronof Thunder ten tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed witha most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his mind. Hehad a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; andhence, I presume, he had his name of CANDIDE . The old servants of thehouse suspected him to have been the son of the Baron s sister, by avery good sort of a gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that younglady refused to marry, because he could produce no more thanthreescore and eleven quarterings in his arms.

6 The rest of thegenealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through theinjuries of Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, forhis castle had not only a gate, but even windows, and his great hall washung with tapestry. He used to hunt with his mastiffs and spanielsinstead of greyhounds; his groom served him for huntsman; and theparson of the parish officiated as his grand almoner. He was called MyLord by all his people, and he never told a story but everyone laughedat Lady Baroness, who weighed three hundred and fifty pounds,consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she didthe honors of the house with a dignity that commanded universalrespect.

7 Her daughter was about seventeen years of age, fresh colored,comely, plump, and desirable. The Baron s son seemed to be a youth inevery respect worthy of the father he sprung from. Pangloss, thepreceptor, was the oracle of the family, and little CANDIDE listened tohis instructions with all the simplicity natural to his age and Pangloss taught the metaphysico theologo could prove to admiration that there is no effect without acause; and, that in this best of all possible worlds, the Baron s castlewas the most magnificent of all castles, and My Lady the best of allpossible baronesses.

8 It is demonstrable, said he, that things cannot be otherwise thanas they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must2 VOLTAIRE necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the noseis formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs arevisibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stoneswere made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has amagnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to bethe best lodged.

9 Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat porkall the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do notexpress themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best. CANDIDE listened attentively and believed implicitly, for he thoughtMiss Cunegund excessively handsome, though he never had thecourage to tell her so. He concluded that next to the happiness of beingBaron of Thunder ten tronckh, the next was that of being MissCunegund, the next that of seeing her every day, and the last that ofhearing the doctrine of Master Pangloss, the greatest philosopher of thewhole province, and consequently of the whole day when Miss Cunegund went to take a walk in a littleneighboring wood which was called a park, she saw, through thebushes.

10 The sage Doctor Pangloss giving a lecture in experimentalphilosophy to her mother s chambermaid, a little brown wench, verypretty, and very tractable. As Miss Cunegund had a great dispositionfor the sciences, she observed with the utmost attention the experimentswhich were repeated before her eyes; she perfectly well understood theforce of the doctor s reasoning upon causes and effects. She retiredgreatly flurried, quite pensive and filled with the desire of knowledge,imagining that she might be a sufficing reason for young CANDIDE , andhe for her way back she happened to meet the young man; sheblushed, he blushed also; she wished him a good morning in a flatteringtone, he returned the salute, without knowing what he said.