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Candide Part Two summary from Voltaire tale and letters
A condensed account of Candide's travels through Persia and Propontis, from his happy farm life to courtly honors and peril, ending in Copenhagen and a Persian hospitality that shifts his view. The excerpt frames Panglossian philosophy, Leibniz, and a critique of worldly misfortunes as part of a larger cosmology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candide
M. de Voltaire
Panglois
Martin
Cunegund
Cacambo
Persia
Propontis
Pangtofs
Constantinople
Pangloss
Leas
Friar Giroffiér
Paquette
Panglofs
Miss Paquette
Holland
James
Lisbon
Leibnitz
Montauban
Kimper Corentin
St. Denis
St. Malos
Rancour
Cateriny
Melpomene
Holy Inquisition
Los Padres
Eldorado
Tauris
Baron Thunder-Ton- Troncke
Philospher
M. Voltaire
Spain
Portugal
Sweden
Lord Molesworth
Denmark
Pontopip‘an
Norway
Borandia
Cibzria
Scotland
Nort-Sea Company
Copenhagen
M. Maupertuis
Royal Academy of Sciences
Polar Circle
Ber