Candide, a philosophic romance by Voltaire, and written in ridicule of the famous maxim of Leibnitz, “All for the best in the best of all possible worlds”; it is a sweeping satire, and “religion, political government, national manners, human weakness, ambition, love, loyalty, all come in for a sneer.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Candia * Candlemas