3809) Asterix, France: La Poste, France (French Post) has issued a 12 Stamp Booklet on the popular comic character: Date/Year of Stamp Booklet issue: 10.03.2025:
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About Astérix:
On March 10, 2025, La Poste has issued a booklet of 12 Asterix postage stamps, illustrated by the characters of the famous Gallic village, accompanied by their speech bubbles and the famous onomatopoeia!
Small and cunning, Asterix deploys treasures of energy against the Romans who occupy Gaul (these Romans are crazy!). With Obelix, they form a comic duo that has worked wonderfully for 65 years now...
A great many readers identify with these mustachioed, joyful, grumpy and brawling Gauls created in 1959 by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. 40 adventures have been published, and Asterix always stands up to Caesar while Obelix and his faithful Dogmatix are always ready to have fun by sending entire legions of Roman soldiers into the air. In these albums, we also come across a touchy village chief, a charming Falbala, fish that is rarely fresh, a blacksmith who is not very sensitive to the bard's music... This rich gallery of characters is a whole world that belongs to our common heritage!
Hero of a major work, Asterix escapes the effects of fashion. Because like all myths, he is immortal. And the Magic Potion of which the druid Getafix has the secret (when he is not hit by a menhir that gives him amnesia) still works and always...
Links:
1) For more on the Olympics and Paralympics held in the past, including the origins and history of the Olympics and Commemorative coins issued both on London Olympics and Paralympics please read my post on the London Olympics 2012 link as follows: History of the ancient & modern Olympics and Paralympics & commemorative coins issued during the London Olympics and Paralympics
4) For Rio 2016, please click on the following link to get interesting insights into the mascots of the Rio Olympics Vinicius and Tom, the Games and the Commemorative Coins and stamps issue programme: 1)The 31st Summer Olympics "Rio 2016"2) Commemorative Stamps and booklets issued by the Department of Posts, India on 05.08.2016
5) For Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity, please click on the following link: Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity
6) For a set of Post cards titled "Olympic Events" : please click on the following link: "Olympic Events": A set of 12 Post Cards issued by the Karnataka Postal Circle, India Post on 11.07.2016
7) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "Spirit of Olympics, Athens, Atlanta" please visit the following link: Spirit of the Olympic Games, Athens-Atlanta: Celebrating the Centenary of the Modern Olympic Games
8) For a presentation set of four stamps titled "XXVIII Olympic Games" (2004 Summer Olympics Athens, Greece, please visit the following link: XVIII Summer Olympic Games, Athens Greece (2004)
9) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "XXIX Olympic Games" (2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, please visit the following link: XXIX Olympic Games Beijing, China: 08.08.08- 24.08.08: A Presentation set of four stamps issued by India Post on 08.08.08
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