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12016-12-16T15:39:30-08:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e84763At Kunersdorf, the Russian-Austrian armies overpower Prussian forces. Frederick loses half of his forces. He considers abduction or suicide. January/February Voltaire publishes his novel Candide ou L’Optimisme, a satirical picaresque novella rejecting Leibniz’s idea of optimism and the latter’s conclusion that our world is the best possible one that God created.plain2017-04-10T08:46:07-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eAt Kunersdorf, the Russian-Austrian armies overpower Prussian forces. Frederick loses half of his forces. He considers abduction or suicide. January/February Voltaire publishes his novel Candide ouL’Optimisme, a satirical picaresque novella rejecting Leibniz’s idea of optimism and the latter’s conclusion that our world is the best possible one that God created.