Great diplomats, under the direction of Hubert Védrine: a disappearing profession. It brought together around twenty authors to evoke some great figures of the past, such as Talleyrand, Mazarin, Metternich, Bismarck and Kissinger.
However, there is no nostalgia in his observation, but rather concern. A world is leaving, undoubtedly very harsh but whose tacit rules we knew. Another emerges in the fog, much more moving, treacherous, uncertain, with blurred borders. Old-fashioned diplomats, who love secrecy and power…