The use of images has garnered increasing interest in contemporary historiography. The critical and systematic use of illustrations has become a resource that modifies conventions regarding the processes of memory perception. The book you hold in your hands is the result of an exhaustive process of searching for, selecting, and editing illustrations related to the French intervention in Veracruz, carried out by its author in archives, libraries, and museums in various countries of the Americas and Europe. Paintings, engravings, and photographs that reproduce scenes and figures from the period in question are presented in strict chronological order, accompanied by texts that explain to readers the events that these images represent. As a result of this dual approach, *Illustrated History of the French Intervention in Veracruz* is both a meticulous and illuminating account of the aforementioned historical episode in the Veracruz region and an essential compilation of visual art. This duality offers the public the opportunity for a multifaceted reading, one that considers both the events recounted and the visual products that these events generated.

The iconographic production gathered in this book is also evidence of the resources and aesthetic trends of the period in question, as well as the conventions that each reproduction technique demanded, according to its nature, origins, purposes, and circulation processes. As a consequence of these circumstances, the images in this book provide clear testimony to the confrontation of the objectives and perceptions of the opposing sides. Generally perceived as one of the great feats of national history, the episode of the French intervention in Mexico is, above all, a memorable event that demands a careful reading of the ways in which the opposing sides interpreted it and the specific circumstances in which these proposals were translated into dissemination and propaganda. This Illustrated History offers the reading public the invaluable opportunity to undertake such an analysis.