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When Candide speaks to the Commandant in Paraguay, he refers to Westphalia as ‘filthy’ (dirty in other translations). I really don’t understand why.

It‘s a very minor detail so I haven’t found much about it, yet it makes little sense to me. Candide still follows Pangloss’s philosophy, so would surely still consider Westphalia divine.

I’m just a bit confused and would like to see if anyone had thoughts on it