Candide | Literary Qualities
Voltaire was one of the most voluminous writers of all time and he had much to say. He used a larger vocabulary than any of his non-technical contemporaries, and by his clear, flexible precision, he avoided much of the circumlocution so often found in French prose. Often, he included extremely technical words in a very readable sentence, to improve the exactness of what was being said. Reading Candide or any of Voltaire's prose fiction was a learning experience, and still is today.
It is almost impossible to translate this story from the French without capturing something...
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