The gift of Caesar

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The Gift of Caesar (French original title: Le Cadeau de César ) is a comic strip in the Asterix series, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo . The comic first appeared in 1974 as the 21st volume in the series.

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Caesar gives land to soldiers who have served in the army for twenty years. Among them is Keinentschlus, a drunk who insulted Caesar while intoxicated. As a punishment, Caesar gives him the Gallic village as a piece of land. A few days later, no decision is unable to pay the bill in a pub and gives the landlord orthopedic the plaque with Caesar's seal, which identifies him as the owner of the Gallic village.

Orthopädix then travels with his wife and daughter Zechine to the Gallic village and registers his ownership claim. He is laughed at, but an offer is made to open an inn in the village. He assumes. At the opening ceremony there was a dispute between the wife of Majestix and the wife of Orthopädix, whereupon they decided to hold an election. Whoever receives more votes should be the head of the village. Majestix and Orthopädix are now vying for the favor of the villagers. In the meantime, the former soldier does not come to the Gallic village and demands his property back, which he is denied. He now goes to the Roman camp and demands support.

Majestix asks the druid Miraculix to give him magic potion in order to be able to drive away the competitor, which Miraculix angrily refuses and makes it clear that no one gets a magic potion. The Romans then attacked with catapults. Only when Majestix asks the druid to cook the magic potion for his competitor, he agrees and the Gauls can defeat the Romans. Orthopedic destroys the plaque with Caesar's seal and decides to move to Lutetia with his family. The Gauls celebrate their victory over the Romans at a feast.

Remarks

  • Before that, Chief Majestix's shield bearers were changing figures. Here two (also nameless) Gauls of different heights are introduced, who remain constant in all subsequent issues.
  • The bard Troubadix takes part in the feast with the others at the end of the story.
  • The duel between Asterix and Keinentschlus (p. 31) alludes to Edmond Rostand , Cyrano de Bergerac (1st / 4th Cyrano-Valvert), the "Z" in the Roman's tunic also refers to Zorro .

publication

This was the first Asterix story that was no longer pre-presented to the public in Pilote in France . Instead, the story appeared as a preprint in Le Monde from July 11, 1974 . The first edition of the book Le Cadeau de César followed in the same year by Dargaud as volume 21 of the series. In Germany the story was shown for the first time in 1975 in issues 3 to 13 of the MV ComixDie magazine. The first German edition of the book was published by Ehapa on March 9, 1976 . With the new edition in 2002 this volume got a new cover picture.

The volume was published in English, Spanish, Turkish and the dialects of Thuringia and South Tyrol .

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