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The prefect of Condate (Rennes), Graco Ojoalvirus, leads a life of luxury in the orgies abound thanks to swindle large amounts of taxes paid by the city to Julius Caesar. Due to the few coins that Condate sent to Rome, the government begins to suspect the attitude of Ojoalvirus and sends the quaestor (collector) Claudius Sinusitus to report possible tax irregularities in the area. This is received in an apparently cordial Ojoalvirus, but soon after he is poisoned. Rejecting the attention of the Roman physicians distrust of them, Sinusitus seeks help from the nearby village gala.

There, Getafix informs you that you need to cure a silver star (edelweiss), a plant that only grows in the mountain peaks of Helvetia (Switzerland), where Asterix and Obelix travel. During his journey through Gaul, the Romans let them go freely, but to reach Helvetia begin to suffer the persecution of the legions because the governor of the region and Ojoalvirus friend, Key Diplodocus, want to fail in his mission. Despite the impediments of Diplodocus, Asterix and Obelix manage to cross Geneva (Geneva), Lake Lemanus and eventually take over the plant in a nearby summit to returning to cure Sinusitus, thanks to the invaluable help of several Helvetii as Guardiasuix innkeeper, the banker Zúrix and a group of Tyrolean mountaineers. Thanks to the Silver Star, Sinusitus recovers, drinks the magic potion and gives it its deserved Ojoalvirus, then order the detention of this and Diplodocus. Sinusitus is the first and only Roman in The Adventures of Asterix is ​​attending as a guest to the traditional evening meal that occurs at the end of all the albums.

As in his travels to other countries, the Helvetii are characterized by a number of topics: his obsession with cleanliness (which causes the wrath of Cayo Diplodocus, which does not comprehend a feast is also fun if not greasy), the accuracy of their clocks (though not cuckoo, but sand), cheese with holes, the secrecy of his bank, his love for climbing and obsession to maintain neutrality in most conflicts and assist the wounded of all sides (to the extent that when they finally decide to face the Romans, heal wounds). It also appears a monumental building that brings together representatives of all the tribes of central Europe to discuss politics (although most of these are just sleeping), an ancient precedent of the United Nations.

Asterix Volumenes (1959)

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Dargaud

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