As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.

In chapter three of Voltaire's 1747 novel Zadig there is an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, this time involving, instead of a camel, a horse and a dog, which Zadig was able to describe in great detail from his observations of the tracks on the

Voltaire's popular novel Candide mocked Leibnizian optimism through the fictional tale of a naive youth.

Voltaire's French novel Candide ( 1759 ) contains elements of the picaresque.

Fréron is also mentioned in Voltaire's famous novel Candide, in reference to a rude critic the titular character meets at a theater.

The title of Voltaire's satirical novel Zadig also stems from this root.

The film is a retelling of Voltaire's novel Candide.

Cunégonde is a fictional character in Voltaire's novel Candide.

Byng's execution is referred to in Voltaire's novel Candide with the line Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres – " In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

* Voltaire's Candide, a public wiki dedicated to Candide

* Voltaire's Candide

In Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Pangloss is portrayed as a clueless scholar who, despite the evidence, says that " all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Samuel Butler's Erewhon can be seen as a dystopia because of the way sick people are punished as criminals while thieves are cured in hospitals, which the inhabitants of Erewhon see as natural and right, i. e. utopian ( as mocked in Voltaire's Candide ).

In chapter 5 of Voltaire's novella Candide, a minor character remarks that he was from this region ; " I am a sailor and born at Batavia ".

French examples of the novella include Voltaire's Candide and Colette's Cheri among others.

Ismail Ibn Sharif is mentioned in chapter 11 of Voltaire's Candide.

Farinelli is represented in Voltaire's Candide.

The history of anonymous expression in political dissent is both long and with important effect, as in the Letters of Junius or Voltaire's Candide, or scurrilous as in pasquinades.

A humorous description of the events is featured in Voltaire's Candide.

Following the success of The Lark, Hellman conceived of another play with incidental music, based on Voltaire's Candide.

It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

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The term " panglossianism " describes baseless optimism of the sort exemplified by the beliefs of Pangloss from Voltaire's Candide, which are the opposite of his fellow traveller Martin's pessimism and emphasis on free will.

The argument appears, among other places, in Voltaire's Candide and Philosophical Dictionary.

Voltaire's Candide attacks the notion that all is for the best in this, " the best of all possible worlds ", a world closely supervised by a benevolent deity.

According to Arnold Ages, Voltaire's " Lettres philosophiques, Dictionnaire philosophique, and Candide, to name but a few of his better known works, are saturated with comments on Jews and Judaism and the vast majority are negative ".

David Lampe, in his book, Pyke, the Unknown Genius, states that the name was derived from Voltaire's Candide and was misspelt by his Canadian secretary.

Voltaire's story ( in his Letters on the English Nation ) that Her Grace used to go to Wycherley's chambers in the Temple disguised as a country wench, in a straw hat, with pattens on and a basket in her hand, may be apocryphal, for disguise was superfluous in her case, but it shows how general was the opinion that, under such patronage as this, Wycherley's fortune as poet and dramatist was now made.

Voltaire's motivations for writing the Philosophical Dictionary can be seen as an act of luck.

Voltaire's edition changed the thrust of Meslier's arguments ( or drew on other Extraits which did this ) so that he appeared to be a deist — like Voltaire — rather than an atheist.

The French philosopher Voltaire's classic 1759 novella Candide: Or, Optimism deals with this subject and can be considered an early exploration of this psychological phenomenon.

Voltaire's work seems to be prophetic in nature because the story was published just fifteen years before the French Revolution, when be-headings were prudent.

Modern equivalents, combining science fiction and parody in equal measure, may be found in Voltaire's Micromégas and the works of Douglas Adams.

Inspired by Voltaire's sense of the breadth of history, Hume widened the focus of history, away from merely Kings, Parliaments, and armies, to literature and science as well.

Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) includes two aliens, from Saturn and Sirius, who are of immense size and visit the Earth out of curiosity.

Eberhard Kindermann sent an airship to the planets in 1744 in Die Geschwinde Reise auf dem Lufft-schiff nach der obern Welt (" The Airship's Speedy Journey to the Upper World "); while a traveller from the star Sirius passes inward through the Solar System, stopping at various planets in Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ); followed by another outward voyage in Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert's Voyage de Milord Céton dans les Sept Planètes (" Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets ", 1765 ).

The chateau includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room ( moved from its original location by later private owners ), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God.

**-Mahomet the Imposter ( adapted from Voltaire's Mahomet )

* Dialogue from the film is sampled in the track " Project80 " on Cabaret Voltaire's 1994 album The Conversation.

In an opposite direction, he premiered a technologically innovative opera called Dennis Cleveland at the Kitchen in 1996, based on a talk show format and with some of the singers / actors spread out among the audience, though with a dense libretto drawn from John Ralston Saul's critique of Western society in the latter's book Voltaire's Bastards.

The more radical Swinney's Birmingham Chronicle, which caused controversy in 1771 by serialising Voltaire's Thoughts on Religion, boasted in 1776 that it circulated across nine counties and was " filed by coffeehouses in practically every centre of any size from Edinburgh southwards ".

In chapter 6 of Voltaire's novella Candide, the narrator remarks that the University of Coimbra had decided that " the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking.

In Voltaire's satire Candide, the main characters stop there on their escape from Lisbon ( chapter 9-10 ).

A centuries-old theme in Western culture is the depiction of European women forcibly taken into Oriental harems – evident for example in the Mozart opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (" The Abduction from the Seraglio ") concerning the attempt of the hero Belmonte to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio / harem of the Pasha Selim ; or in Voltaire's Candide, in chapter 12 of which the old woman relates her experiences of being sold into harems across the Ottoman Empire.

In 2011, J released a new solo album, dark-cabaret oriented: Not Long For This World, and played bass for Voltaire's album Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children !.