![]() Set in around 50 BC, the village of the Gauls was located in the fictional town of Armorica, a place that most agree equates to modern Brittany. The strength of the Gauls was supplemented by a magic potion, brewed by the village druid, Getafix, and you probably learned more from these pages about the beastly Romans and their underhanded tactics (and about European history in general) than you were ever going to in school. ![]() People all over the world (the stories have been translated in to over 100 languages) have readily followed their antics as they lived, worked and generally resisted occupation by the Roman forces by whatever means possible. These colorful French-themed comics by Goscinny and Uderzo have been doling out fun for kids and kidults alike since the 1960s, with the catalogue of stories depicting life for a village of Gauls led by the diminutive Asterix and corpulent Obelix. Sound familiar? Probably because you speak the language of the Gauls and of those mustachioed Roman fighters, Asterix and Obelix. Menhir, wild boar, magic potion, Unhygenix, Dogmatix.
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