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Candide: Cunégonde
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Later, while Candide and Martin are eating supper, Cacambo returns and tells them that Cunégonde is in Constantinople, and that he has been enslaved. Cacambo instructs Candide to wait until after the meal to leave. Candide and Martin eat with six "foreigners", all kings with little power come to Venice to see a carnival. The duo gives the last of these kings two thousand sequins for his exceptional misfortune; the other kings each give him twenty.
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Candide stops in Bordeaux to replenish his supply of cash by selling off a few of the recovered jewels. He heads toward Paris where he falls ill and meets the Abbé of Périgord, who brings Candide and Martin to a playhouse. The performance moves Candide to tears, but draws the acerbic ire of a critic, who excoriates Candide for falling prey to such false sentimentality. The Abbé of Périgord offers to introduce Candide to the lead actress, Miss Clairon, who reminds him of Miss Cunégonde. Candide, Martin and the Abbé of Périgord head to her house in Saint-Honoré, a suburb of Paris, where they come upon a table of guests busy at a game of cards. Candide joins them and loves several thousand pieces without the slightest blink of an eye.
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In the longest chapter of the story, Candide and the pessimistic scholar Martin undergo one unsettling experience after another in Paris. Candide takes ill and nearly dies, and upon his recovery he sees a play which he particularly enjoys but which a critic next to him loathes. Candide meets a young abbé with whom he visits the house of a marquise. When the card game is over, the marquise attempts to seduce Candide, with only his innocence and dedication to Cunégonde preventing him from giving in. However, the marquise does manage to steal one of his jewels. In a final insult, the treacherous abbé conspires to fool Candide into giving his money to an actress posing as Cunégonde. Fortunately, the plot fails and Candide and Martin flee France for England.
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Candide turns around one evening while dining in a tavern to lay his eyes upon Cacambo. Initially ecstatic at the thought that Miss Cunégonde accompanies him, he is once again disappointed to learn that Miss Cunégonde is in Constantinople, and worse, Cacambo has fallen back into the servitude of Sultan Achmet. Six strangersall of them former kings each dethroned in the most turbulent and miserable circumstancesrecount the stories of their respective political fall from power. They have all come to divert themselves at the Carnival at Venice.
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Gardens are thought by many critics to play a critical symbolic role in Candide. The first garden commonly identified is the castle of the Baron, from which Candide and Cunégonde are evicted much in the same fashion as Adam and Eve are in the book of Book of Genesis. Cyclically, the main characters of Candide conclude the novel in a garden of their own making, one which might represent celestial paradise. The third most prominent "garden" is El Dorado, which may be symbolically a false Eden.[60] Other intermediary gardens may be seen in the Jesuit pavilion, the garden of Pococurante, Cacambo's garden, and the Turk's garden. These gardens share biblical references and are each symbolically significant. It has ... been proposed that the gardens refer to the Encyclopédie, and that Candide's conclusion to cultivate his garden symbolizes Voltaire's great support for this endeavour.[61]
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