Candide, de Voltaire (1759)

C'est la première fois que je lis un livre de Voltaire. Il y avait quelque chose qui me retenait, la peur de m'attaquer à des ouvrages que je pensais compliqués et hautement philosophiques. Je me trompais. Candide, un des contes philosophiques de Voltaire, se lit très facilement. C'est la deuxième lecture, où l'on doit percevoir…

Candide, or, Optimism is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with optimism by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.

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is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with

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