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283 Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the help of many people and institutions. My first thanks go to Harold James, who kindly and constantly supported and advised me over the past few years. I also benefited from discussions with many colleagues, at different stages of my project and in different manners : Robert Boyce, Éric Bussière, Philippe Buton, Benoît Challand, Ken Endo, Giovanni Federico, Olivier Feiertag, Mark Gilbert, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Fernando Guirao, Yuichi Hosoya, Wolfram Kaiser, Stine Knudsen, Johnny Laursen, Brigitte Leucht, Andy Moravcsik, Serge Noiret, Kiran Patel, Morten Rasmussen, Federico Romero, Sarah Snyder, Kristina Spohr Readman, David Stevenson, Guido Thiemeyer, Maurice Vaïsse, Antonio Varsori, Antoine Vauchez, Arne Westad and Pascaline Winand. I thank the“Florentines”: Mauro Campus, Lucia Coppolaro, Paola di Credico, Gabriele D’Ottavio, Eleonore Eckmann, Mathieu Grenet, Georg von Graevenitz, Aoife Keogh, Jacob Krumrey, Pierre-Yves Lacour, Delphine Lauwers, Franck Lecomte, Marion Lemaignan, Mario, Valérie Mathevon, M’hamed Oualdi, Sabatino , Vivanda, Martin Wall, Giuseppe Zaccara; the “Londoners”: Emma de Angelis , Wallyd Benchikh, Eirini Karamouzi; the “Parisians”: Vincent Duchaussoy, Mathieu Duhamel, Théodore Efthymiou, Jean-Romain Fayard, Pierre-Étienne Minonzio, Pierre Skorov; the “Bruxellois”: Édouard Meier and Marion Santini; many thanks to the RICHIE band, and in particular Marloes Beers, Frédéric Clavert, Garret Martin, Guia Migani, Matthieu Osmont, and Christian Wenkel. It has been a pleasure working with Cornell University Press. Many thanks to Roger Haydon and Susan Specter for their advice and support, to the series editors , to Marie Flaherty-Jones for wonderful copyediting, and to the two anonymous reviewers for all their advice and guidance. Special thanks go to Liz and Michael Benning-Ladurner, Marie-Julie Chenard, Daniel Furby, Michael Geary, Angela Romano, Federico Romero and Laurent Warlouzet for long discussions and, even more important, last-minute help. Thanks also to Piers Ludlow—not only did he manage to awake my interest in European integration history (CAP included, which is no small feat) but he continuously encouraged me to carry on, supported my decision to go to Florence, represented a great shadow supervisor during my stay in Tuscany, and bravely read and commented on my successive Frenglish drafts. And finally thanks to my mother, godmother, and Jean-Pierre 284 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Melin, for their constant support. Mistakes, approximations and omissions remain mine. Many research institutions made this research possible.The European University Institute and the French government provided early funding.The EUI was,in addition, an ideal setting for academic research, while the Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy (LSE IDEAS) and the LSE International History Department provided a great academic home for the last stages of my research. Special thanks go to Maurice Pinto for his kind and enthusiastic support, without which I would not have been able to revise this manuscript. Such extensive archival research would also have been impossible without help from the staff of the various archives I visited. In particular I thank Jocelyne Collonval (Archives de la Commission), Agnès D’Angio-Barros (Centre des Archives économiques et financières), Jean-Philippe Dumas (Archives du Ministère des Affaires étrangères), Grégoire Eldin (Archives du Ministère des Affaires étrangères), Mareike Fossenberger (das Politische Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes), Pascal Geneste (Archives nationales), Frédérik Grélard (Archives historiques de la Banque de France), Barbara Groß (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz), Birgit Kmezik (das Politische Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes), Michael Leumann (Historisches Archiv der deutschen Bundesbank), B. Limberg (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz), Jean-Marie Palayret (Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence), Tom Quinlan (Irish National Archives), Anna Rita Rigano (Archivio Storico della Banca d’Italia), Jeanette Sherry (Bank of England Archive), and Christoph Stamm (Helmut-Schmidt-Archiv, Bonn). I also thank the Commission d’Accès aux Documents administratifs (CADA), which has been remarkably efficient in the treatment of my appeals regarding denied requests for access. ...