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OCR: Candide: The gentle and sensible prota agonist of Voltaire's philosophical satire by the same name (1759) The story belittles the intellectual optimism espoused Leibniz and Rousseau, twa of the most influential writers of the eighteenth -century Enlightenment The tale chronicles the wanderings f a naive devotee ofan absurd philosophical sect Despite brushes with death and calamity, Candide triumphs impossible adversaries Although assem- bled with satirical intent the events that challenge the her were documented in rerent European history as wAS the credulous human optimism prata gonist Althougl challeng here recent