Partant de Bretagne, Astérix a voyagé a travers la France et l'Europe, se faisant de nombreux amis. Aujourd'hui nous demandons votre aide afin qu'il retourne sur les lieux de ses aventures (Lutece, Angleterre, Corse, Espagne, Égypte...). Merci d'avance des photos que vous prendrez pour témoigner de ce voyage et n'oubliez pas le retour. A la fin de chaque voyage , Astérix revient en son village breton pour un banquet.

Leaving  Brittany, Astérix travelled in France and Europe, meeting friends. Today we ask for your assistance so that he returns  on the spot of his adventures (Lutece, England, Corsica, Spain, Egypt…). Thank you for photographs which you will take to testify to his travel. Don't forget : Asterix always comes beck in Brittany to a e great meal in his village

Petit breton malin, à l'intelligence vive, toutes les missions perilleuses lui sont confiées sans hesitation . Astérix tire sa force surhumaine de la potion magique du druide Panomarix. Resistant aux romains, ces aventures l'ont conduit à travers le monde d'Egypte en Angleterre en passant par la Corse en compagnie de ses compères.

Asterix

Asterix (originally Astérix) is the fictional hero of a series of comic books created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in France.

The books have been translated into many languages (including Latin and ancient Greek) and are available in most countries. It's probably the most popular French comic in the world.

Setting and characters

The stories also feature allusions to major artistic works (such as Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Wedding and Victor Hugo's story of the battle of Waterloo from Les Châtiments in Asterix in Belgium), historical personalities (Napoleon, Louis XIV of France), famous places (Le Moulin Rouge).... 

However, in many other respects the series reflects life in the 1st century BC as accurately as can be expected from the medium. For example, the multistoried apartments in Rome - the insulae - has Obelix remarking that one man's roof is another man's floor and consequently "These Romans are crazy" - his favourite line. 

The text makes relatively regular use of original Latin proverbs, and allusions to Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico, a book about the conquest of Gaul, later used as an introductory text to Latin. Some jokes are made about Caesar's use of the third person to write about himself.

Asterix is very "punny"

A key feature of the text of the Asterix books are the constant puns used as names of characters; The names of the two protagonists come from the French names for the asterisk and the obelisk. 

English language examples include the chief (Vitalstatistix), the druid (Getafix), the woeful bard of the village (Cacofonix), the fishmonger (Unhygienix), an old man (Geriatrix) with a young wife. Incidental characters often feature names like "Hiphiphurrax" and "Mykingdomforanos". 

This punning tradition occurs in other languages; for example, in the French original, the chief is called "Abraracourcix", derived from the phrase "à bras raccourcis" meaning 'with arms raised and ready, ready to punch'. The Egyptian in Astérix Légionnaire is named "Courdeténis" in French, "Ptenisnet" in English.

As a kind of visual pun, minor characters often resemble famous people or fictional characters. Notable examples include Britain's most famous bards, in Asterix in Britain, who are four in number and look like the Beatles; and a pair of Belgian warriors in Asterix in Belgium who resemble Thomson and Thompson of the Belgian Tintin comic book. 

More recently, this has occasionally extended to major characters: in Asterix and the Black Gold, a Roman spy is Sean Connery as James Bond, and in Asterix and Obelix All at Sea, the leader of the escaped slaves is Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.