Ay! On this day of 23 April 2005, Iberians celebrated the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes.
And this year, the festivities were more elaborate than usual, since it was also the 400th anniversary of the publication of his Don Quixote de la Mancha.
In line with the subtle references to the story made by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in the album entitled Asterix in Spain (plate 28), our Gauls wanted to wave their banners to salute the memory of the greatest windmill hunter of all time - Hombre!
It's an invitation to reread this masterpiece during spring break, as well as the extraordinary album in which Obelix learns a new way of getting food: like a big naive baby, he holds his breath. This admirable naivety makes him more like Don Quixote or Sancho Pansa, don't you think?
In line with the subtle references to the story made by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in the album entitled Asterix in Spain (plate 28), our Gauls wanted to wave their banners to salute the memory of the greatest windmill hunter of all time - Hombre!
It's an invitation to reread this masterpiece during spring break, as well as the extraordinary album in which Obelix learns a new way of getting food: like a big naive baby, he holds his breath. This admirable naivety makes him more like Don Quixote or Sancho Pansa, don't you think?
If revisionist scientists were hoping to ridicule the authors of Asterix, who are gifted with encyclopaedic knowledge, as everyone knows, they'll be in for a run for their money.
As a matter of fact, some Goth archaeologists have recently uncovered in Germany a tomb of young Gauls that they have dated as 2400 years old - or 350 years before Asterix.
It is in the German part of the Bliesbruck-Reinheim archaeological park located between the Saar and the Moselle (France).
