Abstract
In the prologue for the book Drama en México, piece written by Jules Verne in 1851, the author offers, in a son of mirror house, the impressions of French travelers who have visited our country since the end of the 16th Century up to the 20th Century. They are 69 Frenchmen (one from the last years of the 16th Century, five from the 18th Century, 34 from the 19th Century, including those who came during the French Intervention, and 29 from the 20th Century). Among these travelers who wrote about Mexico there were diplomats, reporters, writers, anthropologists, merchants, miners, archaeologists, etcetera. As it can be expected from such an heterogeneous group, not all opinions are favorable towards our country, but this mirror game, even including its distortions, allows us to glimpse as a whole the true image of Mexico during four centuries.