The modern French writer and researcher Marcelin Defourneau, using the artistic technique of a fascinating story from the name and eyes of an eyewitness, achieves the effect of the reader's presence on the roads, in cities, palaces, houses and taverns of Spain during its golden age. Vivid sketches of the life of Spaniards of all classes (love, war, poetry, the Inquisition) and action-packed collisions of this adventure-rich era of musketeers and adventurers are based on historical sources carefully selected by the author, primarily memoirs. The book is accompanied by valuable illustrative material.