> The interview
> The European revival and the Rome Treaties
> The first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage
> France's European policy under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
> France's policy towards the Eastern bloc
> The reform of the European institutions: from the European Convention to the Treaty of Lisbon
- Born on 8 December 1928 in Paris (F), died on 18 July 2012 in Paris
- Nationality: French
- Student at the National School of Administration (ENA) (1953–1955)
- Embassy Secretary assigned to the Directorate-General for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris (1955)
- Policy Officer then Deputy Head in the Private Office of the French Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs and Secretary-General of the French Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom (1956–1958)
- Deputy Director of European Organisations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1958–1960)
- Head of the Technical Assistance Mission to Morocco (1961–1963)
- Deputy Director of the Africa Section in the central administration of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1963–1965)
- Research Officer at the National Centre for Scientific Research (1965–1966)
- Adviser in Tehran (1969–1971)
- Junior Minister to Jean Sauvagnargues, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1976)
- Secretary-General of the Presidency of the French Republic (1976–1978)
- Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1981)
- Chairman of the Lot-et-Garonne General Council (1978–1994, 1998–2004)
- Senator for the Lot-et-Garonne département (1983–2011)