>>5597538So he was a a frenchman of polish-mercantile descent writing about superpowered gauls, incompetent romans, egyptians, scottish dogs and whatnot? Sounds like a cultural boiling pot of sort, only it was one man.
What do you exactly mean by french spirit? I'm unfamiliar with french things with exception of Leon, René/Goscinny's works and that movie we don't talk about in fear of king sending the spies in glowing trenchcoats after us.