Candide, or Optimism — Part II is an apocryphal picaresque novel, possibly written by Thorel de Campigneulles (1737–1809) or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719–1797), published in 1760.
[1] Candide[2] was written by Voltaire and had been published a year earlier (1759).
This work was banned, but was popular enough that unauthorized publishers and printers sold it on the blackmarket anyways.
[3] The second part was attributed to both Campigneulles—"a now largely unknown writer of third-rate moralising novels;" and Laurens—who is suspected of having habitually plagiarised Voltaire.
The story continued with Candide new adventures in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Denmark.