After the defeat gala hands of the Romans at the battle of Alesia, the leader of the Gauls, Vercingetorix, deposited "in the feet" of Julius Caesar his shield as a symbol of surrender. Caesar leaves left the shield, which passes successively through the hands of a Roman archer, a legionnaire, a centurion drunk, the owner of a tavern and an anonymous Gallic warrior survivor.
Some years later, in the village gala Vitalstatistix suffers a liver disease caused by excesses in the final banquet. To seek a cure, Asterix and Obelix accompany his boss to a spa in Nemessos (now Clermont-Ferrand), a city in the country Chieftain.
While the head remains in the spa, Asterix and Obelix advantage for touring the region. During his trip, have a meeting about Gergovia with "Tulius Bolígrafus, special envoy of Julius Caesar." Asterix, offended by the arrogance that displays it, decides to stop his march and his entourage to mamporros. After the meeting know the wine merchant and coal Alámbix, who sympathized with them after seeing Bolígrafus have defeated, decides to give inn at home.
Caesar learned of this "second loss" of Gergovia, finally decides to chasten Gauls Gergovia celebrating a victory in the Gallic manner, that is, parading on the shield of Vercingetorix. Viewing Tulius Bolígrafus that the shield is not among the possessions of the campaigns of Caesar, and warned by him to find the real coat ("I can not celebrate my victory rather than on the Chieftain's Shield! Is useless to try to fool me! Bluff Caesar is to trick the gods, and the anger of the gods is terrible! "), the Romans undertake a desperate search to locate it.
The Gauls find out the intentions of the Romans through a spy drunk Alámbix visit the tavern in search of information, but that leaves the tongue after a few drinks. Alarmed, Asterix decides to start his own search for the Chieftain's Shield to avoid giving to Caesar that triumph.
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