Pangloss explains that the Baron, Baroness, Cunégonde, and her brother were disemboweled and killed by soldiers. Pangloss, who has contracted syphilis and is now a poor beggar on the street. In Holland, he is pitied by an Anabaptist who apprentices him and offers him shelter. Candide is conscripted into the army, where he is abused (to a nearly absurd degree) and almost executed before escaping to Holland. This incident begins a miraculous series of misfortunes for all of the novel’s characters. Cunégonde’s father sees the young lovers kiss and immediately banishes Candide from his home. Candide admires the Baron’s beautiful daughter, Cunégonde, and they share an innocent kiss after dinner one evening. Pangloss, teaches him that their world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything that transpires in this world is for the best.
Candide grows up in the home of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in the German province of Westphalia.
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