A diabolical plan

The Domain of the Gods: The Domain of the Gods is the seventeenth album dAstérix adventures. Published in 1971, it offers us a story called "village" where Julius Caesar will attempt a new approach to get rid of Gauls who still resist and always lenvahisseur.
Julius Caesar decided to circle the Gaulish village by building a residential area for the Roman owners, called the "domain of the gods." This construction is intended to civilize the irreducible and weaken them by depriving them of their main resource, the forest, and to do so down the last bastion resists it and taunts. Despite the interventions of the Gauls that disrupt work, the first building was finally built and the new owners are beginning to move into. As had been planned by Caesar and Anglaigus, its architect, the new Roman people into the habit of going to the village to do their shopping, starting to influence them. Of these, only Abraracourcix, Getafix, Asterix and Obelix are aware of the danger. Asterix and Obelix are responsible for finding a solution.
Julius Caesar therefore instructs Anglaigus architect by trade, to build a residential estate in the heart of the forest bordering the town dAstérix. And in the early stages, we have the right to a dose with humor sets the tone of the album, with the Idéfix poor verging syncope seeing an uprooted tree! The first days will be reduced to Anglaigus and slaves who tear the trees at night (to not fall on the Gauls) and Asterix, Obelix and Getafix who repeat these trees grow with magical acorns. But seeing that their actions have an impact on the condition of slaves, Asterix and his friends to leave.
And very quickly, the first building out of the ground and the first Romans came to live there. The Jules César plan materializes, the Romans go shopping among the Gauls and soon the money will come to sow discord in the village, all wanting simproviser fishmonger or antique dealer. A Asterix to find a solution to prevent its dimploser village and forest disappear.
Tome very pleasant to read and full with humor. It's fun to see those Romans come to mess the Gauls and conversely, people who discover two completely different lifestyles. Volume also highlights the work conditions and what one might resemble union meetings whatsoever for slaves or for legionaries who complain about their working conditions. Strike, claims and Chief who yield by mocking his soldiers. We can see in a small area of ​​the Gods nod to Parly 2 which was initially sappeler Paris 2.
Overall an excellent book, a story full of innuendo, rich in humor and causasses scenes.