Voltaire

Candide Annotated Voltaire

Candide 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 title 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 Panglo