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This story follows Candide and his tutor Pangloss, as they journey the earth following the philosophy: ‘All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds’. This adage, however, is disproved at many turns, with the characters encountering many forms of opposition to their outlook. Candide realises some of the horrors the eighteenth-century world contains, but is there any light at the end of the tunnel for the travellers? Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known better by his pen-name Voltaire, was hailed as a genius of the ‘Enlightenment’, a philosophical and political movement which championed logical reasoning above all else.