Latest / The Voltaire Library / Candide Chapter 1 - How Candide Was Brought up in a Magnificent Castle, and How He Was Expelled Thence

Transcript

Candide Chapter 1 - How Candide Was Brought up in a Magnificent Castle, and How He Was Expelled Thence · The Voltaire Library

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: CHAPTER I. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE. In a castle of Westphalia,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: belonging to the baron of Thunderton Tronk, lived a youth
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners His
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: countenance was a true picture of his soul. He combined
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: I apprehend, of his being called Candide. The old servants
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: of the family suspected him to have been the son
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: of the Baron's sister, by a good, honest gentleman of
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood, whom that young lady would never marry, because
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: rest of his genealogical tree having been lost through the
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: injuries of time. The baron was one of the most
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had not only
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: a gate, but windows. His great hall even was hung
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: with tapestry. All the dogs of his farmyards formed a
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: pack of hounds at need. His grooms were his huntsmen,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: and the curate of the village was his grand almoner.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: THEY CALLED HIM MY LORD AND LAUGHED AT ALL HIS STORIES.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: THE BARON'S LADY WEIGHED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: AND WAS THEREFORE A PERSON OF GREAT CONSIDERATION, AND SHE
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: DID THE HONORS OF THE HOUSE WITH A DIGNITY THAT
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: COMMANDED STILL GREATER RESPECT. HER DAUGHTER, CUNNAGONDA, WAS SEVENTEEN YEARS
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: OF AGE, FRESH-COLORED, COMELY, PLUMP, AND DESIRABLE, The baron's son
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: seemed to be in every respect worthy of his father.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: The preceptor, Pangloss, was the oracle of the family, and
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: little Candide heard his lessons with all the good faith
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: of his age and character. Pangloss was professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmologology.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: He proved admirably that there is no effect without a cause,
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: and that, in this best of all possible worlds the
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: baron's castle was the most magnificent of castles and his
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: lady the best of all possible baronesses it is demonstrable
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: said he that.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Things cannot be otherwise than as they are for all
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: being created for an end all is necessarily for the
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: best end observe that the nose has been formed to.
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: Bear spectacles thus we have spectacles legs are visibly designed
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: for stockings and we have stockings stones were made to
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: be hewn and to construct castles therefore my lord has
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: a magnificent castle for the greatest baron in the province
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: ought to be the best lodged pigs were made to
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: be eaten therefore we eat pork all the year round
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: consequently they who assert that all is well have said
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: a foolish thing they should have said all is for
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: the best candide listened attentively and believed innocently for he
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: thought miss cunegonde extremely beautiful though he never had the
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: courage to tell her so he concluded that after the
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: happiness of being born of Baron of Thundertontronk, the second
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: degree of happiness was to be Miss Cunegonda, the third
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: that of seeing her every day, and the fourth that
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: of hearing Master Pangloss.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: The greatest philosopher of the whole province, and consequently of
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: the whole world. One day, Cunegonda, while walking near the castle,
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: in a little wood which they called a park saw
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: between the bushes dr pangloss giving a lesson in experimental
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: natural philosophy to her mother's chambermaid a little brown wench
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: very pretty and very docile as miss cunegonde had a
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: great disposition for the sciences she breathlessly observed the repeated
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: experiments of which she was a witness. She clearly perceived
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: the force of the doctor's reasons, the effects, and the causes.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: She turned back greatly flurried, quite pensive, and filled with
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: the desire to be learned, dreaming that she might well
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: be a sufficient reason for young Candide, and he for
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: her She met Candide on reaching the castle and blushed.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Candide blushed also. She wished him good morrow in a
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: faltering tone, and Candide spoke to her without knowing what
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: he said. The next day after dinner they went from table.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Cunegonda and Candide found themselves behind a screen. Cunegonda let
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: fall her handkerchief. Candide picked it up. She took him
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: innocently by the hand. The youth as innocently kissed the
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: young lady's hand with particular vivacity, sensibility, and grace. Their
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: lips met, their eyes sparkled, their knees trembled, their hands strayed.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Baron Thunderton Trunk passed near the scene, and beholding this
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: cause and effect, chased Candide from the castle with great
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: kicks on the backside. Cunegonda fainted away, and she was
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: boxed on the ears by the Baroness as soon as
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: she came to herself, and all was consternation in this
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: most magnificent and most agreeable of all possible castles.