An Erasure of "Candide" by Voltaire.

I collaborated with Candide by Voltaire.

Hardly was Candide in his inn when he was attacked

 by a slight illness caused by his fatigue.Since he had an

enormous diamond on his finger and a prodigiously 

heavy strongbox had been observed in his baggage, he 

immediately had at his side two doctors he had not 

called, some intimate friends who did not leave him, and 

two pious ladies heating up his broths.

Martin said: “I remember having been sick in Paris

 too on my first trip; I was very poor, so I had neither

friends, nor pious ladies, nor doctors; and I got well.”

However, by dint of medicines and bloodtettings, Can-

dide’s illness became serious. A neighborhood priest 

came and asked him gently for a note payable to the

bearer in the next world. Candide wanted no part of it;

the pious ladies assured him that it was a new fashion.

Candide replied that he was not a man of fashion. Mar-

tin wanted to throw the priest out the window. The cleric

swore that Candide should not be buried. Martin swore

 that he would bury the cleric if he continued to bother

 them. The quarrel grew heated; Martin took him by the

shoulders and pushed him out roughly, which caused a 

great scandal which led in turn to a legal report.