The Governor, Don Fernando, wants to keep Cunégonde as his mistress. Don Issachar and the Grand Inquisitor both enter the house shortly thereafter, and Candide kills each one as he enters.Ĭandide, Cunégonde, and the old woman flee all the way to Buenos Aires in South America, where Candide is put in charge of a military company mustered for the war against the rebelling Jesuits in Paraguay.

There, he is reunited with Cunégonde, who is being sexually shared by the Grand Inquisitor and a Jewish merchant named Don Issachar. Candide despairs, beginning to doubt Pangloss’s optimistic philosophy.Īn old woman approaches Candide and leads him to a house in the country. Candide is publicly whipped, and Pangloss is hung. Candide and Pangloss survive, but are soon after arrested by the Inquisition, which is holding an auto-da-fé (a public festival for the punishment of heretics) in an attempt to prevent future earthquakes. Pangloss and Candide float to shore, but as soon as they land, the terrible Lisbon Earthquake takes place, killing thousands. The ship sinks, and Jacques the Anabaptist dies. The three travel to Lisbon, debating philosophically on the voyage there.Īs soon as they reach the Bay of Lisbon, there is a terrible storm. Pangloss loses an eye and an ear to the disease, but survives. Jacques takes Pangloss in, and also pays for his cure. Shortly thereafter, he comes across Pangloss, who is ill with syphilis. Eventually, he is taken in by the altruistic Anabaptist Jacques. The wife of a Protestant orator dumps a chamber pot over his head after he refuses to say that the Pope is the Antichrist. There, he begs for money, generally without success. He performs well in military exercises, but flees like a coward in the first battle.Ĭandide makes his way to Holland, because he has heard it is a rich country.

Candide wanders from place to place, and is eventually tricked by two Bulgarian soldiers into joining their army. Furious, the Baron kicks Candide out of Thunder-ten-tronckh. Unfortunately, the two are caught kissing. Inspired, she approaches Candide, intending to do the same. There, he is instructed by the philosopher Pangloss, whose doctrine is that we live in “the best of all possible worlds.” One day, the Baron's daughter Cunégonde comes across Pangloss having sex with Paquette, her mother's chambermaid. Candide is a young man who lives in the Barony of Thunder-ten-tronckh.

Candide by voltaire