To some extent, American did enjoy book by Voltaire

• Voltaire work: 1759
• I’d dance around as character in satire
• Leonard Bernstein operetta based on Voltaire
• Bernstein operetta
• Dr. Pangloss's pupil, in Voltaire
• Voltaire novel
• Source of the line "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?"

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Candide was the name given to various French newspapers of the 19th and 20th century.