Candide en Dannemarc, ou, L'optimisme des honnêtes gens
Contributors: Du Laurens, Henri-Joseph, 1719-1797
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1769
Place of publication: A Geneve [i.e. Rouen?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: French literature
Other titles: Candide en Dannemarc.; Optimisme des honnêtes gens.; Candide en Dannemarc.
Notes: There is no consensus as to the first edition of this work or the author of it. Some attribute the work to Voltaire, others to Charles-Claude-Florent Thorel de Campigneulles or Henri-Joseph du Laurens. Some cite a first edition from 1759, others from 1761; other editions are listed for 1767, and this one for 1769. The only agreement is that it is "part two" of Voltaire's  Candide, ou l'Optimisme, first printed [S.l.], 1759.

The Cat. collectif de France online cites several records for this work: one is unattributed and gives Geneva as place of publication; the other is attributed to Voltaire and gives place of publication as Geneva [i.e. Rouen]

The British Museum cat. leaves this work unattributed and calls this work "an imitation of Voltaire's 'Candide'" and cites only a Geneva, 1767 edition.

Attributed to M. de Campigneulles by Barbier who cites 1759 and 1761 editions.

Quérard attributes work to Charles-Claude-Florent de Thorel de Campigneulles.

Larousse's Grand dict. universel does not attribute to Charles-Claude-Florent de Thorel de Campigneulles but to Henri-Joseph Dularuens (1719-1797)

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) *⁶ A-Q⁸⁻⁴ R⁸ S² (-S2) (S1 verso blank)

Barbier, A. A. Ouvrages anonymes, 1938.

Quérard III:316.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Kenyon and Bloomingdale Funds.