Candide

Why does the narrator include the details about the old servants about the boron's sister and candide

In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners, His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He combined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. The old servants of the family suspected him to have been the son of the Baron's sister, by a good, honest gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady would never marry because he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his genealogical tree having been ost through the injuries of time.

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The narrator is providing background information describing Candide, what might be his family history, and what his future might hold. From this short excerpt, we know that Candide's upbringing and his family tree does not guarantee his future.