GRAND RÉCIT – When Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny imagined their irreducible little Gaul on October 29, 1959, they had no idea that they had given birth to a modern myth.
This article is taken from the special issue “ Asterix, a French myth “. In this issue, the sharpest feathers in the Figaro bring an offbeat, caustic, original and up-to-date look at this icon of French culture.
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Today, it’s hard to imagine a world without Asterix. Sixty-five years ago, however, it was. In France at the end of the 50s, Tati’s films set the pace for the lives of French people, from Jour de fête à Uncle via Mr Hulot’s Holiday. This is the beginning of the Trente Glorieuses. Industrial progress took hold. The Salon de l’auto flourished, the Mirage Dassault took off, Brel and Brassens reinvented the chanson à texte. In Paris, Camus, Beauvoir and Sartre boiled the cauldron of letters in the shade of the cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
In the cinema, the legs of the French cancan swirl as swiftly as the sword of Fanfan la Tulipe. Not forgetting And God created woman (1956), in which the BB myth was born. Film buffs…
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