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Il y avait en Westphalie, dans le château de M. le baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, un jeune garçon à qui la nature avait donné les mœurs les plus douces.In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition.
Sa physionomie annonçait son âme.His face was the index of his mind.
Il avait le jugement assez droit, avec l’esprit le plus simple ; c’est, je crois, pour cette raison qu’on le nommait Candide.He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide.

Candide, Voltaire — French original with English

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