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- Candide and Pangloss survive, but are soon after arrested by the Inquisition, which is holding an auto-da-fé (a public festival for the punishment of heretics) in an attempt to prevent future earthquakes. Candide is publicly whipped, and Pangloss is hung.
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After his wound healed, Spanish troops attacked him and sent him to jail in Buenos Aires. The baron eventually returned to Rome to serve his Jesuit order, but was caught bathing naked with a young Turkish man and sent to the galleys.
The next morning, Candide receives a letter signed “Cunégonde” with the news that she is ill in Paris and wishes him to visit her. Candide and Martin are conducted into a dark room. The maidservant explains that Candide may not view Cunégonde because light would be harmful to her.
“There,” said he, “are the two suspected foreigners,” and at the same time he ordered them to be seized and carried to prison. “Travellers are not treated thus in El Dorado,” said Candide.
A summary of Chapters 17–19 in Voltaire's Candide. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Candide and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Candide and Martin are arrested for being foreigners and brought to northern France, where they are forced to board a ship for England. The end of this chapter completes the image of Paris as a city of trickery and theatrical deception.
It was forbidden for a long time because of the “sort of improper things”, and the writer himself one day acknowledged his authorship, another day repudiated it. A real historic event inspired Voltaire to write Candide. It was the Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755.
After I had been cured by the surgeon of the college of the wound you gave me, I was attacked and carried off by a party of Spanish troops, who confined me in prison at Buenos Aires at the very time my sister was setting out thence.
