In Paris, Candide gets seduced by the Marquise and she steals his money.
They sign a letter they write to Candide with "Cunegonde" and tell Candide to come to Paris because she is ill. When he arrives there he gives all his jewels to a woman he believes i

Pangloss is his mentor and he teaches him that their world is the best of all possible worlds.

He can't stay there because Cunegonde isn't there. He leaves and takes as many pebbles as possible.

Paquette is Pangloss's old mistress. She had syphilis and a surgeon cured her and in return she became the surgeons mistress. The surgeons jealous wife beats up Paquette and Paquette was sent to prison. The judge granted her freedom and in return she beca

Candide doesn't want to marry Cunegonde, but he dares not to refuse her.

He expects nothing but the worst from the world, and has trouble seeing he world as it really is.

A slave with no leg or hand because his mom sold him to his cruel master, Vanderdendur.

The executioner who was to hang Pangloss was inexperienced in hangings and made the noose badly. A surgeon dissected his body. Pangloss regained consciousness after being cut open, and then surgeon sewed him closed again.

The two physicians help Candide when he is ill only because they see the big diamond on his finger. The help they give him only makes him sicker.

Because her father's castle is destroyed in war.

He becomes ill and he has big diamond on his hand that attracts two physicians who force their services on him. The physicians only make Candide sicker.

The baron (Cunegonde's brother). He does not want to live to see his sister marry beneath her rank.

Candide's prize throughout the book is Cunegonde.

Cacambo.

Cacambo bought Cunégonde and the old woman from Don Fernando and that a pirate abducted them and sold them as slaves. Cunégonde has become ugly but Candide loves her anyway. Candide purchases Cacambo’s freedom.

He draws up a formal treatise declaring that the baron has no rights over his sister.