While living over there with an Anabaptist, named Jacques he comes across a haggard beggar who happens to be Professor Pangloss. However, he escapes the encampment and leaves for the Netherlands. Finding himself living upon his own, he joins the Bulgarian army and leaves the camp when he faces arrest for leaving the camp as a deserter and becomes a victim of flogging. However, when Candide is engaged in an intimate action with his beloved, the baron finds him and immediately orders his expulsion. But Candide was actually in love with his cousin for her beauty and suppresses his feelings. Pangloss has an illicit affair with the chambermaid Paquette and Cunegonde see them kissing and wanted to try this on Candide. He teaches them and believes in optimistic philosophy and this world is the ‘best of all possible worlds’. Professor Pangloss, his mentor, teaches him along with his cousin Cunegonde and Young baron. The story of the novella shows that an illegitimate born young man, Candide, is living in luxury in the castle of his uncle, a German baron.
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