Candide
a philosophical novel (1759) by Voltaire.
Historical Examples
Candide Voltaire
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland
Candide Voltaire
Library Notes A. P. Russell
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete Jean Jacques Rousseau
History of Modern Philosophy Alfred William Benn
Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Various
A Short History of French Literature George Saintsbury
Suspended Judgments John Cowper Powys
Balzac Frederick Lawton
Candide [(kan-deed, kahnn-deed) (1759)]
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