In our time, Candide is Voltaire's most famous work. It was not always this way. Even for mortals like Voltaire, less condemned to oblivion than the rest of us, we don't really choose our destiny. That’s how it is, we spend our lives making mistakes, we fight against chimeras, we are deceived, flouted, betrayed, we hope, we are disappointed, and we end our lives by returning to the starting point. That way, we probably regret less. And yet, we are left...Candide. By reading it, we hold the hands of dozens of generations of readers, and those of generations to come, we exist, beyond our own life.