Asterix history debunked but Gaul myth will endure

"The Asterix comic books, first created in 1961, have done much to mould popular beliefs about the Gauls through their diminutive, moutachioed hero and his corpulent sidekick Obelix. But the books by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo have got it almost all wrong, according to the exhibition "Les Gaulois" under way at Paris' Cite des Sciences."
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