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- Title: Molly, Jenny and Margot: The Making of Candide's Paquette.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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PAQUETTE is a minor character in Candide whose four appearances in the novel occupy fewer than 50 lines. When we first see her she is part of the doomed world of Thunder-ten-tronckh and - in the aftermath of the Bulgar-Abare war - Pangloss wonders aloud in Chapter 4 whether she is still alive. She is, and in Chapter 24 she reappears in Venice cheerfully in love with Frere Giroflee. This illusion of conjugal bliss however is soon undermined, for we quickly learn of Paquette's execrable life as a street prostitute, and of her turbulent existence with Giroflee. In line with the tale's moral purpose, Paquette, along with Giroflee, eventually join Candide, Cunegonde and the others, where, in the best of all possible worlds, she takes up embroidery and he carpentry (Chapter 30). J. H. Broome argued as early as 1960 that the character of Paquette was partially inspired by the heroine of Fougeret de Monbron's Margot La Ravaudeuse: histoire d'une prostituee, first published in 1750 (Broome 1960 512). Broome's argument is based on a number of verbal and narrative parallels between the accounts of Margot's adventures and Paquette's life-story. For instance, he points out that Paquette was seduced by a monk; Margot by a Carmelite. Paquette becomes a doctor's mistress, is imprisoned, and freed by a judge. Margot is also imprisoned and freed by a judge (president). Broome reinforced his case by arguing that Monbron exerted a wider influence on Candide through another work: Le Cosmopolite, ou Citoyen du monde, also published in 1750.
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