Candide ou l optimisme de Voltaire
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There was in vestphalie, in the castle of Monsieur le Baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young boy to whom nature had given the the sweetest mores. His physiology betrayed his spirit. He had the judgment straight enough, with the simplest mind; it is, I believe, for this reason he was called Candide. The former servants of the house suspected that he was son of the baron's sister, and a good and honest gentleman from the neighborhood, that this young lady never wanted to marry because he could only prove that eleven neighborhoods, and the rest of his family tree had been lost by the insult of time.