Complex sentence: Voltaire famously satirised this notion in "Candide", in which Leibniz is represented by Dr Pangloss, and indeed the idea fell almost entirely from favour with philosophers after the Lisbon earthquake.
Split into simpler sentences: Voltaire famously satirised this notion in "Candide", in which Leibniz is represented by Dr Pangloss. The idea fell almost entirely from favour with philosophers after the Lisbon earthquake.