This newspaper was one of the main political and literary weeklies of the Interwar period, inspiring similar publications like Gringoire on the far-right and Vendredi and Marianne on the left.

Other contributors included Lucien Dubech as a drama critic, Dominique Sordet for music, Maurice Pefferkorn for sports, and Abel Manouvriez for legal reporting, all of whom held similar roles at L'Action française.

The weekly espoused anti-parliamentarian, anti-republican, anti-communist, and anti-democratic views, explicitly advocating "resolute antisemitism" and showing strong support for Italian fascism.

Printed in a large format (43 x 60 cm), the newspaper achieved a circulation of 80,000 copies in its first year, rising to nearly 150,000 in 1930 and over 340,000 from 1936 onwards, even reaching 465,000 according to Professor Pierre Albert.

[4] During the German occupation of France, Candide relocated from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand the zone libre and supported Pétain's National Revolution, whose policies closely aligned with its political agenda, especially after 1934–1936.