One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778), was one of the key thinkers or “philosophes” of the European Enlightenment. Of his many literary works, Candide remains the most popular.