Asterix and Caesar’s Gift

Asterix and Caesar’s Gift

Presentation

Written by: Goscinny

Drawings by: Uderzo
Original title: Le Cadeau de César

Published by: Hachette Livre
First album edition: 1974

When Legionary Tremensdelirius gets the title deeds to the little Gaulish village as a bonus, he swaps them with tavern landlord Orthopaedix for a drink. Funnily enough, Asterix and his friends aren’t keen to hand over their village to anyone else.

 

After a chieftaincy election campaign and a showdown with the Romans, both events fiercely contested, can all still end well?

What the druids have to say about the album

After the idea of The Mansions of the Gods, René and Albert return with the one of spoiling the Gauls’ lives by playing with a worthless title deed. Here the authors are dealing with eternal values as they continue to create the Asterix legend. The characters are universal. They are us, but better, much better. They are unattractive, and yet at the same time they are inaccessible myths.

Why give away a title deed of a village that doesn’t even have a name? For lack of defeating Gauls full of magic potion on a battlefield, it seems that Caesar is launching into a symbolic war that aims to annexe Asterix’s village to the Roman Empire, at least on an administrative level.

 

Another battle, political this time, is the election campaign between Vitalstatistix and Orthopaedix. It enables the authors to react in their own way to another confrontation, which sets Mitterrand and Giscard (French presidents) by the ears. They both end up in turn winning the magic cup.

 

One of General de Gaulle’s ministers once told Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny that, during a Cabinet meeting, the General gave each of his ministers the name of a character from the Gaulish village!

Various versions of the album

Le cadeau de César

Français – Éditions Hachette

Le Cadeau de César

Français – Éditions Hachette – La Grande Collection

Das Geschenk Cäsars

Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection

Das Geschenk Cäsars

Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection – Die Utimative Édition

El regalo del Cesar

Espagnol – Salvat

El regalo del Cesar

Espagnol – Salvat La colección

El regal del Cèsar

Catalan – Salvat

O Presente de César

Portugais – ASA

O Presente de César

Portugais – A colecção – Salvat

Asterix and Ceasar’s Gift

Anglais – Orion

Het geschenk van Caesar

Néerlandais – Éditions Hachette

Asterix ja Caesarin lahja

Finnois – Egmont Kustannus OY AB

Asterix e il regalo di Cesare

Italien – Panini Comics

Kejserens gave

Danois – Egmont A/S

Asteriks Sezar’in Hediyesi

Turc – Remzi Kitabevi

O Presente de César

Brésilien (Portugais) – Record

Podarunek Cezara

Polonais – Egmont Sp

Cäsarn sinn Jeschenke

Mundart 33 – Thüringisch I

Olls Lai Lolli

Mundart 60 – Sidtiroulerisch III

The bookseller’s corner

Classic paperback collection

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-646-8
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48

Hardback edition

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-645-1
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48