Voltaire, a French philosopher who produced an age of enlightenment for his era of the mid 1700's, His piece titled Candide, brought together full coincidences and disasters. ... Statements by Voltaire in Candide has statements of war on religion, with Louis XLV controlling the land and no one wanting to challenge his reason for contesting the religion of France. ...
Voltaire's most famous work was Candide. Voltaire published Candide in 1759. Candide was a story of a young German nobleman who encounters a multitude of misfortunes throughout his travels of the world, but somehow maintains his youthful optimism concerning society. Candide served as an outlet for Voltaire to criticize things that he saw as being flawed in society of the time, things like violence, corruption, and a lack of religious freedom among other things. ...
Voltaire was actually run out of France for his satirical view of the optimistic world, Candide'. Candide' focused on the falsehoods in the positive' theories developed in the Renaissance; if everything comes from God, then disease comes from God and we should rejoice in being ill. Candide' so remarkably spit in the eye of the nave optimists that it could not be argued so it was simply banned. ...
