Candide and Fleurs du Mal Miscellaneous Essay
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The castle, romanticized by Candide, is, in reality, an old ruin “languishing in a provincial German backwater, its feudal glories in the past, reduced to banal impoverishment” (Williams, 1997, p.34). There are, as Williams (1997) points out, some flea-bitten dogs for hunting hounds, stable lads for huntsmen, and the village priest for Grand Chaplain.