Editing Ahmed III (section)

==In fiction==
In [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]'', the eponymous main character meets the deposed Ahmed III on a ship from [[Venice]] to [[Constantinople]]. The Sultan is in the company of five other deposed European monarchs, and he tells Candide, who initially doubts his credentials:

<blockquote>I am not jesting, my name is Achmet III. For several years I was Sultan; I dethroned my brother; my nephew dethroned me; they cut off the heads of my viziers; I am ending my days in the old seraglio; my nephew, Sultan Mahmoud, sometimes allows me to travel for my health, and I have come to spend the Carnival at Venice."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Woolf |first1=H. I. |last2=Jackson |first2=Wilfrid |date=2008 |title=Full text of "Candide, and other romances. Translated by Richard Aldington, with an introd. and notes. Illustrated by Norman Tealby" |url=https://archive.org/stream/candideotherroma00voltuoft/candideotherroma00voltuoft_djvu.txt |website=Internet Archive}}</ref></blockquote>

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer [[Nedim Gürsel]] as the setting of his 2001 novel ''Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul''.

In fact, there is no evidence of the deposed Sultan being allowed to make such foreign travels, nor did Voltaire (or Gürsel) assert that it had any actual historical foundation.