I, Julius Caesar

Original title: Moi, Jules César

Author: de Montesquiou, Alfred

Illustrator: Névil

Publication Date:

April 2025

Pages:

256

Original language and publisher

French | Allary Editions

Territories Handled

Worldwide excl. French

Genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

I, Julius Caesar

Original title: Moi, Jules César

Author: de Montesquiou, Alfred

Illustrator: Névil

Synopsis

32 Historians, 16 Countries, 3 Years of Research

Few people have made a bigger mark on history. And few have lived such an adventurous life. That destiny – of a sickly orphan boy who would climb to the top of the Roman Empire – belongs to Julius Caesar. And he himself relates it here, from cradle to grave.

Thanks to extraordinary research that made it possible to recreate every stage of his life, this graphic novel reads like an autobiography. In it, Julius Caesar shares his humiliations and his victories, his boldest moves and his moments of madness in his own words. How could he have defeated all his enemies and been assassinated by his friends? Although he was intransigent both on the battlefield and in the political arena, we find out that he was capable of unexpected leniency and could be a bashful lover. The flesh-and-blood human being, as told by the Julius behind the Caesar – the man behind the myth.

Alfred de Montesquiou interviewed some of the world’s most eminent Julius Caesar specialists. Those 32 historians, each of whom specializes in a different period in Caesar’s life, made it possible to pull off a stupendous feat: write this 250+-page graphic novel based exclusively on known historical facts.

At the back of the book, readers will find the sources for each page, whether that source is text by Caesar’s contemporaries or Caesar himself, or drawn from more recent research. Over 300 endnotes complete this graphic novel making I, Julius Caesar as true as possible to what is known about him.

Research was carried out over years and 3 continents, in 16 countries, in the very places where Julius Caesar achieved his feats. Many French cities and towns that were important steps in his conquest of the Gauls figure among them.