Candide, Chapter 26: samenvatting

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1. Cacambo finds Candide at the inn, reports Cunegonde’s location, and tells him to prepare for departure after supper.
2. Servants address the six strangers as monarchs, leading Candide and Martin to suspect a Carnival disguise.
3. The strangers identify themselves as rulers and describe deposition, imprisonment, lost territories, or poverty.
4. Five kings give Theodore money, while Candide gives him a diamond worth two thousand sequins.
5. Four more displaced rulers arrive, but Candide thinks only about reaching Cunegonde in Constantinople.

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Theodore contrasts royal authority with present poverty. His reversal makes the distance between a title and actual security especially clear.

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