On March 10, 2025, La Poste issues a booklet of 12 Asterix postage stamps, illustrated by the characters of the famous Gallic village, accompanied by their speech bubbles and the famous onomatopoeia!
Small and cunning, Asterix deploys treasures of energy against the Romans who occupy Gaul (these Romans are crazy!). With Obelix, they form a comic duo that has worked wonderfully for 65 years now...
A great many readers identify with these mustachioed, joyful, grumpy and brawling Gauls created in 1959 by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. 40 adventures have been published, and Asterix always stands up to Caesar while Obelix and his faithful Dogmatix are always ready to have fun by sending entire legions of Roman soldiers into the air. In these albums, we also come across a touchy village chief, a charming Falbala, fish that is rarely fresh, a blacksmith who is not very sensitive to the bard's music... This rich gallery of characters is a whole world that belongs to our common heritage!
Hero of a major work, Asterix escapes the effects of fashion. Because like all myths, he is immortal. And the Magic Potion of which the druid Getafix has the secret (when he is not hit by a menhir that gives him amnesia) still works and always...
