[2] The title alludes to Julius Caesar's classic book, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War).

[3] Caesar has completed writing his Commentaries on the Gallic War, but his publisher, Libellus Blockbustus, encourages him to omit Chapter 24 on "Defeats at the Hands of the Indomitable Gauls of Armorica", fearing it would besmirch the Roman leader's curriculum vitae.

A mute black Numidian scribe, Bigdhata, steals a copy of the chapter and gives it to the journalist, the Orwell-esq Confoundtheirpolitix (a parody of Julian Assange), who in turn passes it on to the village of indomitable Gauls.

Since the Gauls have, unlike the Greeks and Romans, no skills in reading and writing, the druid Getafix (accompanied by Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix) travels to the sacred forest of the Carnutes to meet his former teacher, Archaeopterix, who will then pass on the truth by word of mouth to future generations.

The true story eventually reaches René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in a French cafe in modern times, who publish the censored tales in comic books as the Asterix adventures.