A diplomat and former French Ambassador to China and Russia, Jean-Maurice Ripert gives a rare account on French diplomacy in the last decades in his memoirs, Diplomatie de combats. He shares the decision making, the negotiations, all in all, the making of international relations he witnessed first-hand, and draws a portrait of leading contemporaries such as Bill Clinton, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Poutine and Xi Jinping. Meet him at Librairie La Page.