A critical edition of Fougeret de Monbron's 'Le Cosmopolite, ou le citoyen du monde' (1750). The introductory notes focus on the links to Voltaire's 'Candide' and show how Monbron's cynical memoirs combined with another important narrative source of 'Candide', La Place's 'Histoire de Tom Jones, ou l'enfant trouvé' (1750). Édouard Langille is Professor of French Language and Literature at the St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.