Most Frenchmen seem a little bored with the grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that containsas a bow to the French palatelobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions in 50 B.C.
Chuckles While Sipping. Astérix...
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