On Voltaire's "Candide"
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Volter's Candide
Candide is in some ways the beginning of his greatest period of productivity and especially his philosophical writings. It went through 20 editions in its first year, but it was a mixed critical reception for some of the reasons we've been talking about. He published in the face of being banned from his distance and relative safety and Switzerland. But he intervened in the two great religious dramas or dramas of religious persecution,. The civil aid of the bar and then the poor Coloss family whose son committed suicide and they were accused of murdering him and their family was destroyed.
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