Candide [French - English Bilingual] - Paragraph by Paragraph Translation

Candide
by Voltaire

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About Candide
Candide, a work of satire on Leibniz's philosophy of optimistic determinism, remains the work for which Voltaire is best known. The view that the current world is the best of all possible worlds because the Creator would not have created a lesser one (Leibniz, Monadology) is critized through and through. Another instigator of the book is the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
Candide has enjoyed both great success and great opposition. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy and political sedition.