Pangloss justifies the tragedy with optimism, believing everything is as it should be. Pangloss and Candide make it ashore, but the city is struck by a devastating earthquake, which kills around 30,000 inhabitants. All three leave together by boat on a business trip to Portugal, but upon arriving in the bay of Lisbon, a storm causes a shipwreck, and the Anabaptist drowns. Candide convinces the Anabaptist to fund Pangloss’ medical treatment. Candide encounters Pangloss, now a syphilitic beggar on the streets, and learns that Cunégonde died in an attack on the castle. He is forcibly recruited into the Bulgar army, and after surviving a bloody battle, he escapes to Holland where he is taken in by James the Anabaptist. Candide is expelled from the castle when he is caught kissing Cunégonde. Candide opens at the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia, Germany, where the young Candide is in love with the Baron’s daughter Cunégonde and is taught by their tutor Pangloss that the world is the best of all possible worlds.
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