Philosophes centered mainly in Paris, including Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau. ... Voltaire was able to concentrate on two specific philosophical projects. ... Voltaire's most famous book, Candide, a novel which he published in 1759. Although Voltaire is the most representative philosophe of his time, Candide is a strange book in that it attacks many of the assumptions of the philosophe movement. ... The main character of the novel, Candide, is set adrift in a hostile world and futilely tries to hold on to his optimistic belief that this "is the best of all possible worlds" as his tu...

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