The original French album displayed a quite different phrase on this same sign: «Master Panix», a cultural reference from French cinema.Essentially, the visit paid by Asterix and Obelix to Massilia on their tour of Gaul gave their creators René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo a dream opportunity to doff their caps to Marcel Pagnol, a French cinematic legend. The two most southerly-based plates from the world of Asterix are simply stuffed with references to Pagnol's famous trilogy, formed by the films Marius, Fanny and César. It all starts, and rightly so, with Caesar.