... philosophy satirically through Candide. Candide was born in Westphalia, a province in western Germany, in the great castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh. Candide's family tree is a bit hazy. Old servants of his say he was the son of the baron's sister to a man of the neighborhood, but they never married because the gentlemen was not sufficiently noble according to his genealogy. Candide, along with Cunegonde and her ... Eden to work the land, not to be idle. With the two philosophers finally agreeing, Candide's conscious is no longer being pulled in two polar opposite directions, allowing peac...

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