Setting

=Setting =

//Chapter 1: How Candide was raised in a fine castle, and how he was chased from it // Candide lives in a castle with Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, the Baroness, and Cunégonde. The castle is located in Westphalia, Germany. Candide is chased from the castle by the Baron.

//Chapter 2: What happened to Candide among the Bulgars // After being kicked out of the castle, Candide walks to the next town over, Valdberghoff-Tratbk-Dikdorff. Candide, there, encounters the Bulgars and must escape from them.

//Chapter 3: How Candide escaped from among the Bulgars, and what became of him // Candide escapes from the Bulgars during the war. He walks to the next village, the Avar village, but it had been destroyed by the Bulgars, so he walks to the next village, the Bulgar village, but it had been destroyed by the Avars. Then he continues on to Holland.

//Chapter 4: How Candide met his old philosophy tutor Doctor Pangloss, and what followed // Candide remains in Holland because he has encountered a kind man, Jacques, and Pangloss. Together, they decide to go to Lisbon.

//Chapter 5: Storm, shipwreck, earthquake, and what became of Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and Jacques the Anabaptist// Candide and Pangloss arrive in Lisbon alone because Jacques drowns at sea. There, there is an earthquake that destroys everything.

//Chapter 6: How a fine auto-de-fé was held in order to hinder future earthquakes, and how Candide’s buttocks were flogged // Candide remains in Lisbon.

//Chapter 7: How an old woman took care of Candide, and how he found again what he loved // The old woman finds Candide, and she takes him to a small cottage to care for him. The next night, she takes him to a castle that was finer than the one in Westphalia.

//Chapter 8: Cunégonde’s story // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cunégonde had been taken to Lisbon by the Bulgars during the time she and Candide had been apart.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 9: What became of Cunégonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and a Jew // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman leave the castle in order to escape punishment for Candide’s murders and arrive via horses in the small town of Avacena, where they stay at an inn.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 10: The distress in which Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman arrive at Cádiz, and their embarkation // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Because all of Cunégonde’s jewels and money have been stolen, they decide to Cádiz. First, though, they traveled through Lucena, Chillas, and Lebrija.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 11: The old woman’s story // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Because the old woman is the daughter of Pope Urban X, and she was the princess of Palestrina, a town near Rome, readers can infer she spent most of her early life in Italy. She also lived in Morocco.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 12: The continuation of the old woman’s misfortunes // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The old woman thought that a man was going to take her back to Italy, but instead, he took her to Algiero to enslave her. Then she was passed around to Tripoli, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople. She was sent to Moscow to be cared for after being tortured. Two years later, she became a maid in Riga, Rostock, Wismar, Leipzig, Kassel, Utrecht, Leiden, the Hague, and Rotterdam. In the end, she moved to Lisbon.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 13: How Candide was forced to part with the fair Cunégonde and the old woman // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman arrive in Buenos Aires. Then, Candide flees without Cunégonde or the old woman.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 14: How Candide and Cacambo were received by the Jesuits of Paraguay // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Cacambo flee via horses to Santiago de Compostela in Paraguay. They end up near to Santiago de Compostela.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 15: How Candide killed the brother of his beloved Cunégonde // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide remains there.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 16: What happened to the two travelers with two girls, two monkeys, and the savages called the Orejones // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Cacambo arrive in Santiago de Compostela officially.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 17: The arrival of Candide and his valet in the land of El Dorado, and what they saw there // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Cacambo arrive at the Orejones’ border. Cacambo suggests they go to Cayenne for help, and they leave in a canoe, though they don’t know exactly where they’re going. They end up in an inn in the kingdom of El Dorado.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 18: What they saw in the land of El Dorado // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Cacambo remain in El Dorado for about a month, but Candide he can’t stand to be without Cunégonde anymore, so he wants to leave.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 19: What happened to them in Surinam, and how Candide met Martin // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Cacambo go to Surinam. They meet a slave and his master, Vanderdendur, and Candide sends Cacambo away to find Cunégonde. He then pays a lot of money to Vanderdendur, so he can go to Venice, but Vanderdendur leaves without Candide. Instead, he goes to France.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 20: What happened to Candide and Martin at sea // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide is on his way to Bordeaux with Martin. On the way, their ship is in battle with another ship, and the other ship is destroyed. It had belonged to Vanderdendur, so Candide feels lucky to have not been on it.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 21: Candide and Marin continue reasoning as they approach the coast of France // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide and Martin arrive in France.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 22: What happened to Candide and Martin in France // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">After some time in France, they are taken to visit the marquis of Parolignac, which is also in France. After much trickery on this part of their trip, Candide and Martin are put on a ship to England.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 23: Candide and Martin head for the coast of England. What they see there // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide never sets foot in England, officially, and he convinces the ship captain to take him to Venice, which is where Cunégonde is.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 24: About Paquette and Brother Giroflée // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide stays in Venice for months, and he cannot seem to find Cunégonde or Cacambo.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 25: The visit to Senator Pococurante, a Venetian nobleman // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide is in Venice.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 26: Of a dinner that Candide and Martin had with six strangers, and who they were // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide is still in Venice, but he decides to go to Constantinople when Cacambo announces that Cunégonde is there.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 27: Candide’s voyage to Constantinople // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide is on his way to Constantinople, and he arrives in Turkey with Cacambo.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 28: What happened to Candide, Cunégonde, Pangloss, Martin, et cetera // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide is in Constantinople.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 29: How Candide found Cunégonde and the old woman // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide finds the old woman and Cunégonde in Constantinople, and he buys them a small farm there.

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chapter 30: Conclusion // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Candide, Cunégonde, Pangloss, Martin, Cacambo, Paquette, and Giroflée all stay in Constantinople, where they all find some peace in their garden.