In one episode of this work, the protagonist must choose between being flogged thirty-six times by every soldier in a regiment and having twelve bullets in his brain.
In one episode of this work, the protagonist must choose between being flogged thirty-six times by every soldier in a regiment and having twelve bullets in his brain. After he escapes from the Bulgarian army, he is rescued by Jacques the Anabaptist. His tutor is hanged for heresy after the Lisbon earthquake, and even though that tutor is deformed because of syphilis he received from Paquette, he maintains optimism. For 10 points, the title character rejoins the heroine Cunegonde and settles down with Pangloss at the end of what satire by Voltaire?
In one episode of this work, the protagonist must choose between being flogged thirty-six times by every soldier in a regiment and having twelve bullets in his brain.
{Candide}, or Optimism [or {Candide}, {ou l'Optimisme}]