Candide is a naive young man who gets exiled from the castle of the Baron of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh in Westphalia for kissing his daughter (Cunégonde). Candide embarks on a series of exotic and often horrific adventures which take him around the world in a search for Cunégonde which eventually leads him to enlightenment and wisdom.

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