"at the village, Getafix makes more potion, and places it at a house spanning the ditch, with Asterix on watch. Codfix uses Getafix's elixir to cure the Romans and exploits their amnesia to claim the Gauls attacked the Romans unprovoked. That night, he returns to his village and seizes the potion, which (after having drunk it himself) he conveys to the Romans. At the next day's battle, the mixture of the two potions causes the Romans to inflate like balloons and then shrink to minuscule size. Terrified by this transformation, they promise to leave the local Gauls in peace. Meanwhile,"
"but Lucius Detritus has kept from him that one village has managed to resist them. Detritus travels to the garrison near the village where Caius Bonus (Crismus Bonus), the garrison's commanding Centurion, explains that the Gauls have a magic potion, which makes them invincible. Detritus decides to capture the potion for himself, and hearing that the clever Asterix and permanently invincible Obelix are the backbone of the Gaulish forces, attempts and fails to eliminate them. A false soothsayer arrives at the village and predicts the arrival of Romans and treasure; despite Asterix's protests, the village believe him, wherefore when a"
"United Kingdom. After the rebel village of Gauls defeat another army of Romans, Julius Caesar faces embarrassment when news of their victory is announced in the presence of his senators. Angered, he decides the village must be cut off from the magic potion that gives them super-human strength. Caesar orders Lucullus, a loyal patrician, to kidnap Druid Getafix and send him off the edge of the world. Following another fight amongst the villagers, Unhygienix accidentally spills a cauldron of potion Getafix was making. Although there is a small amount left, Getafix is forced to locate ingredients to make more, with"
"provinces of Gaul), Britanniae (also Celtic) and Hispaniae (the whole Celtiberian peninsula) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor. The province effectively ceased to exist in AD 486 when the Roman general Syagrius was defeated by the invading Franks. The fictional unconquered village from the French comic book Asterix is located here, on an Armorican peninsula (modern Brittany). Gallia Lugdunensis Gallia Lugdunensis (French: Gaule Lyonnaise) was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica. It is"
"Ancient Gaul, and French national identity often views the Gauls as national precursors, either as biological ancestors (hence the refrain ""nos ancêtres les Gaulois""), as emotional/spiritual ancestors, or both. Vercingetorix, the Gaulish chieftain who tried to unite the various Gallic tribes of the land against Roman encroachment but was ultimately vanquished by Julius Caesar, is often revered as a ""first national hero"". In the famously popular French comic ""Asterix"", the main characters are patriotic Gauls who fight against Roman invaders while in modern days the term ""Gaulois"" is used in French to distinguish the ""native"" French from French of immigrant"
"the potion when he acquires them. During the public execution, Rhetoric asks to go first. Full of magic potion, he resists all attempts at torture, and beats up Metric, throwing him in jail and making himself Chieftain of the Goths. The Gauls visit Metric in his prison, and give him magic potion. As the two Chieftains had the same magic potion in them, a direct fight proves futile and each storms off, promising to raise an army. The Gauls wander around the town, giving potions to any Goth who looks browbeaten and who would be glad of a chance of"
"a village of ""indomitable Gauls"", satirizes this view by combining scenes set in classical antiquity with modern ethnic clichés of the French and other nations. Similarly, in Swiss national historiography of the 19th century, the Gaulish Helvetii were chosen as representing the ancestral Swiss population (compare ""Helvetia"" as national allegory), as the Helvetii had settled in both the French and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and their Gaulish language set them apart from Latin- and German-speaking populations in equal measure. Gauls The Gauls (, , ""Galátes"") were a group of Celtic peoples of West-Central Europe in the Iron Age and"
"translated into English. In 2016, the publisher French Hachette along with Anne Goscinny and Albert Uderzo decided to make the special issue album ""The XII Tasks of Asterix"" for the 40th anniversary of the film ""The Twelve Tasks of Asterix"". The main setting for the series is an unnamed coastal village (rumoured to be inspired by Erquy) in Armorica (present-day Brittany), a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. Julius Caesar has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Republic. The little Armorican village, however, has held out because the villagers can gain temporary superhuman strength"
"virtually incessant warfare, as a result of which the Roman Empire assumed the borders it would hold, with a few modifications, for its entire history. GAUL: The Morini and Treveri tribes of Gallia Comata province (Pas-de-Calais region of NE France), rebel against Roman rule and the Suebi Germans cross the Rhine to give them support. But the Morini are defeated by the proconsul (governor) of Gaul, Gaius Carrinas, who goes on to drive out the Suebi, for which he is awarded a joint Triumph with Augustus in 29 BC. EGYPT: The ""prefectures Aegypti"" (governor of Egypt) Gaius Cornelius Gallus quells"
"novelization was titled """"Operation Getafix"""" (the German translation of the film was ""Operation Hinkelstein"", a hinkelstein being a menhir). The Romans capture Druid Getafix, as part of their plan to deprive a rebel village of Gauls from the magic potion that gives them super-human strength. When the village attempts a rescue, Obelix accidentally hits Getafix with a menhir in the resulting chaos, causing him to be struck with amnesia and insanity. As the village comes to grip with this, a travelling soothsayer named Prolix arrives and begins deceiving some of the credulous villagers into believing a number of prophecies he"
"Romans: Asterix' small Gaulish village, as one of the slaves heard about it from a relative in Britain. Crustacius, in hot pursuit and ignorant of the Gauls' reputation, prepares to attack the village. The Gauls prepare for battle, but Obelix is yet again denied a drop of Getafix's magic potion. As the Gauls return triumphant from battle, they find Obelix has drunk the remaining cauldron of magic potion - Getafix having made two cauldrons just in case - and that this overdose has turned him into stone, which has also proved that it would be dangerous to drink more magic"
"Following constant defeats by the rebel village of Gaul, the Roman senate begins to suggest that they might be gods due to their apparent invincibility. Julius Caesar, openly disdainful of the suggestion, decides to test the village and meets with their chieftain, Vitalstatistix. Caesar declares that the Gauls undertake a challenge, inspired by the Twelve Labours of Hercules - the village's best warriors must undertake a set of twelve new tasks, in which he will hand over the Roman Empire to them if they succeed in each one, whereas failing just one of his tasks will result in the Gauls"
"now in the Metropolitan Museum of New-York). The name of Vermand comes from ""Veromandis"" (meaning ""at the Veromandui"") and indicates this status of ""civitas"" capital. Viromandui The Viromandui or ""Veromandui"" (, Vermandois) were a tribe of the Belgae, occupying a small region in northern Gaul. We know about them primarily from Julius Caesar's ""De Bello Gallico,"" a book chronicling Caesar's early conquests against the Gauls. The boundaries of their domain, before Roman conquest, remain partly uncertain, but it is known that the ""Viromandui"" lived around modern-day Aisne, Somme and Oise in Picardy, France. These areas are known to have belonged"
"drunk Getafix's magic potion. When Ceramix is reduced to amnesia by a third menhir that was thrown by Obelix during the battle, Vitalstatistix declines his right to take over Cassius' tribe, and sends him home in honour. Psychoanalytix returns to business despite his amnesia, but remains professionally successful despite ""side effects"" of his medicines. Cassius, now in the same mental state as Psychoanalytix, becomes ""the most courteous chief in Gaul"" and the probable originator of French courtesy. His tribe returns to Gaulish ways and the fight against Rome, while Vitalstatistix's tribe celebrate their victories. In the original French version, Vitalstatistix's"
"that his village, which has been the terror of the Romans for years, is now looked upon as relatively harmless. He is further outraged when he hears of Caesar's remarks. He claims that ""his villagers"" are in fact the bravest men of Gaul, and travels to Belgium to prove his point. A reluctant Asterix and Obelix go with him after Getafix tells them not doing so could make the story come to a sticky end. After crossing the border, they encounter a village of Belgians who rely on brute strength (and a regular diet of meat and beer) to successfully"
"statuary, from the time of the Roman conquest of the Gauls. French specialists give two different explications of the Gaulish name: Philippe Jouët proposed to connect ""Ogme"" to the Indo-European root word *""Hek-"" ‘sharp’, ‘stone’, ‘vault’, and to the Greek ""akmon"" (meteorite). According to Xavier Delamarre, the root word would be ‘path’, ‘guide’, confirming in this his role as a psychopomp. Ogmios was recorded by Lucian, a satirical writer in 2nd-century Samosata in his ""Prolalia-Heraklès"". He is described as resembling an older, more tanned version of Heracles, the Greek hero of strength. Ogmios and Heracles both wear lion skins and"
"invading the Goths, then an invasion of Gauls crossing into Germania — which his centurion dismisses as their territory is not the one being invaded—, and then finally reports the Gauls returning to Gaul, which causes him to get 8 days inside). They present the druid first to a customs officer, who at first refuses to let them through on charges of importing foreign goods. Eventually, the Goths present Getafix to their Gothic chieftain, Metric, calls in a Gaulish-Gothic translator, Rhetoric, who is threatened to be executed if he does not convince Getafix to cooperate and brew magic potion. Although"
"found eternal youth, in the hope that they can restore Obelix's appearance. Unfortunately the Atlantides cannot help, only knowing how to make someone younger, not older, so the Gauls head back to the village, while the freed slaves decide to live at Atlantis as children forever, finally free from Rome. On their way back, the Gauls are intercepted by yet another Roman galley. Asterix is incapacitated by a catapult stone, and when the Romans want to feed him to the sharks after throwing the gourd of potion into the Ocean all seems lost. Seeing his friend in danger provokes enough"
"Obelix wearing plus-fours (a put-on of Tintin), much to Asterix and Obelix's fury. For the honour of Gaul, Asterix and Obelix help Lutetia (ancient Paris) win the chance to host the ancient Olympic Games by acting as security for the event. Asterix helps a tiny anthropomorphic personification of Spring overcome Winter. Some unlucky Romans try to take Dogmatix as their ""lucky"" mascot, and are later defeated by him. A joke on modern French anxiety over the bastardization of the French language (cf. Franglais) shows the Gauls using Latin loanwords. The authors find a modern descendant of Obelix. A brainstorming session"
"Viromandui The Viromandui or ""Veromandui"" (, Vermandois) were a tribe of the Belgae, occupying a small region in northern Gaul. We know about them primarily from Julius Caesar's ""De Bello Gallico,"" a book chronicling Caesar's early conquests against the Gauls. The boundaries of their domain, before Roman conquest, remain partly uncertain, but it is known that the ""Viromandui"" lived around modern-day Aisne, Somme and Oise in Picardy, France. These areas are known to have belonged to the ""Viromandui"" due to direct historical evidence: the limits of ""civitas Viromanduorum"" are kept by the diocese of Noyon. However historical records of their"
"Gilles de Geus Gilles de Geus (""Gilles de Geus"") is a Dutch humoristic/historical comics series, created by Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit in 1983. It is set in the 16th century during the Eighty Years' War and features the adventures of Gilles, a brave but not always too bright resistance fighter who is part of the Geuzen, an army who fight the Spanish oppressor in the Netherlands. The series has been compared to ""Asterix"" for being a humoristic comics series set in a historical time period, containing a lot of satirical winks and references. The series has been translated"
"published ""Obelix and Co."" typically being listed as the ""official"" twenty-third volume. After a Roman centurion is continually defeated by the Village of Indomitable Gauls, he concludes that they must be gods. Julius Caesar sets twelve tasks that only gods could perform, similar to the twelve tasks of Hercules, to prove that the Gauls are mere mortals. If the Gauls succeed, he will admit defeat and let the Gauls become the rulers of Rome, but if they fail, they will become his slaves. The challenge is accepted and Asterix and Obelix are chosen to represent the village, eventually succeeding in"
"bravely against the Roman legions. But the situation becomes critical and the villagers have not got long to live; that's when Anticlimax, one of the villagers seeks volunteers to go seek help from his second-cousin Asterix the Gaul and bring back a barrel of ""magic potion"" from the Breton village of the indomitable heroes. Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (; translated as ""Asterix & Obelix: On Her Majesty's Service""), directed by Laurent Tirard, is the fourth film adaptation of the adventures of Astérix after ""Asterix & Obelix vs Caesar"" (1999), """" (2002), and"
"epics and fairy tales as part of deeply embedded spiritual allegories and mythological archetypes: Mythology in France The mythologies in present-day France encompass the mythology of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, and other peoples living in France, those ancient stories about divine or heroic beings that these particular cultures believed to be true and that often use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. French mythology is listed for each culture. Bretons are a subset of the celtics that adopted Christianity. Celtic cosmology predominates their mythology: Gauls were another subset of Celtic people. Celtic"
"English articles: French articles: Magie Noire ""Magie Noire"" (""Black Magic"") is a comics series by the Ivorian painter and author Gilbert G. Groud. It deals with the dangers of black magic in Africa. The story is about a father who is married to several women. His favourite wife Zoé has only one child. In order to proceed in sorcery and earn a position of higher power he is required to sacrifice this last son. The child is sacrificed in the world of ghosts. In the real world he falls very sick and throws up daily. The mother, who is not"
"became present-day France as Gauls. The territory of these peoples probably included the Low Countries, the Alps and present-day northern Italy. Julius Caesar in his ""Gallic Wars"" described the 1st-century BC descendants of those Gauls. Eastern Gaul became the centre of the western La Tène culture. In later Iron Age Gaul, the social organisation resembled that of the Romans, with large towns. From the 3rd century BC the Gauls adopted coinage. Texts with Greek characters from southern Gaul have survived from the 2nd century BC. Greek traders founded Massalia about 600 BC, with some objects (mostly drinking ceramics) being traded"
"a Germanic tribe that overran Roman Gaul at the end of the Roman Empire. In the pre-Roman era, all of Gaul (an area of Western Europe that encompassed all of what is known today as France, Belgium, part of Germany and Switzerland, and Northern Italy) was inhabited by a variety of peoples who were known collectively as the Gaulish tribes. Their ancestors were Celts who came from Central Europe in the 7th century BCE (and even before, according to new research), and dominated native peoples including the Ligures, and Aquitanic people (among them, the Basques) in Aquitaine. Some, particularly in"
"makes a potion which restores his mind, and retains sanity despite being hit by another menhir (thrown by Obelix in an attempt to cure Getafix by repeating the cause of the original accident). Getafix quickly proceeds to brew a supply of magic potion. Meanwhile, the fight had turned into a bore: Vitalstatistix, exploiting his superior physical condition, is running circles around the ring while Ceramix tries in vain to catch him. After hearing of Getafix's recovery, Vitalstatistix defeats his exhausted opponent with a single blow. The Romans do not accept this victory, but are crushed by the Gauls, who had"
"pose as a Gaul in order to infiltrate the village; the unlucky loser is a short, slack-tongued misfit named ""Caligula Minus"". He is dressed in a wig, false moustache and traditional Gaulish dress and led in chains through the forest as a prisoner, awaiting rescue by the Gauls. Sure enough, Asterix and Obelix free Minus and believe his flimsy cover story that he is a Gaul from Belgium. Once inside the Gaulish village, Minus goads Asterix into sharing the secret of the magic potion with him; he goes on to use the same tactic against Getafix in order to try"
"'Gallo-Roman' in origin, so they became Bretons. The process may have been essentially the same."" Vikings settled in the Cotentin peninsula and the lower Seine around Rouen in the ninth and early tenth centuries, and these regions came to be known as ""Normandy"", the name ""Armorica"" fell out of use in the area. With western Armorica having already evolved into ""Brittany"", the east was recast from a Frankish viewpoint as the ""Breton March"" under a Frankish marquis. The home village of the fictional comic-book hero Asterix was located in Armorica during the Roman Republic; there, ""indomitable Gauls"" hold out against"
"comic book to the game that was published in December 2015. In 1793, an ancestor of Sauvage, Jean Desmarais, found the mythical Fleur du Mal sword in the Paris catacombs when escaping the authorities for being a revolutionary. Since then, it was passed on to his descendants with the most recent one being Jeannine Sauvage. During the ""Secret Empire"" storyline, Guillotine appears as a member of the Champions of Europe alongside Ares, Captain Britain, Excalibur, Outlaw, and Peregrine. With help from Squirrel Girl and Enigma, the team manages to liberate Paris, France from Hydra occupation. Guillotine has no superpowers but"
"Trolls of Troy Trolls of Troy is a French comic series published by Soleil Productions. It is a spin-off series of ""Lanfeust of Troy"" and is created by author Scotch Arleston and writer Jean-Louis Mourier. Since 1997, 20 volumes have been published in French. The series is also translated in Polish, Dutch, German and Spanish. In 2013, it was adapted into an animated series. Troy is a world populated by humans, trolls and other creatures and filled with magic. The trolls are physically strong, and viewed by humans as wild animals, but they are civilized from their own point of"
"once belonged to Charles de Gaulle. However, he has displayed a great deal of fallacious knowledge that borders absurdity; he believed that the France defeated Britain in World War II and is under the impression that J.K Rowling, Shakespeare, and Stephen King are French authors. Les Formidables' exploits range from acts of cultural vandalism (that is, attacking establishments they deem Anti-French), helping the needy and oppressed, to outright 'heroic' deeds, usually at the expense of their luchador counterparts. Tequila: A gargantuan and powerful former luchador raised by cacti in the wild deserts of Mexico. Tequila wears a cactus shaped mask"