Marisol Touraine, French Minister of Social Affairs and Health visits a retirement home on July 2, 2015 in Lyon, France. Marisol Touraine visited the home to promote ways to minimise the affects of the current heatwave on the elderly.

LYON, FRANCE - APRIL 03: Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin visits historical Hotel-Dieu of Lyon before the start of the renovation work on April 3, 2015 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius Visits The SIRHA, Catering And Food International Show In Lyon

LYON, FRANCE - OCTOBER 15: French Minister of Ecology Segolene Royal attends the 7th National Meetings on Sounding Environment Quality on October 15, 2014 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

Since 1643, the traditional vows of aldermen While the traditional vows of aldermen, Mgr Barbarin celebrates mass in the occasion of Virgin Mary's anniversary, then he grants traditional blessing to the city of Lyon and to its inhabitants from the balcony of the Fourviere Basilica.

FEYZIN, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 05: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin visits 'BROC' a french society based in Feyzin on September 5, 2014 in Feyzin, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

LYON, FRANCE - JULY 04: French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits the airbase BA 942 July 4, 2014 in Lyon, Mont Verdun, France. This airbase includes the South Sector Operations Center of the Commandement de la Defense Airienne et des Operations Airiennes (CDAOA or Air Defense and Operations Command), which is connected to NATO's Air Command and Control System (ACCS) with an underground alternate strategic command center hardened against chemical and nuclear attack. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

LYON, FRANCE - JUNE 16: Minister of Labor Francois Rebsamen attends the reunion fo Pact of responsibility and solidarity on June 16, 2014 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

Home French minister Bernard Cazeneuve expect annual ceremony of naming of the Superintendents and Police Lieutenant Promotion 2014 at NPHS, French Higher Police School in Saint-Cyr au Mont d'Or.

LYON, FRANCE - APRIL 22: French minister of Economy and Economic recovery Arnaud Montebourg and french minister of Labour Michel Sapin attend the European meeting for enterprises financing on April 22, 2014 in Lyon, France. Sapin and Montebourg are sharing responsibility for the economy based on the German model. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

LYON, FRANCE - APRIL 11: Minister of Women's right, Town, Youth and Sport of the new french government, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visits Lyon's CAF to deliver message about the new disposal authorizing a better come back to professional life for parents on April 11, 2014 in Lyon, France. During the visit, the Minister will sign an agreement with Pole emploi and the National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF) to meet the specific needs of recipients. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

LYON, FRANCE - MARCH 01: Christophe Boudot, Marine Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch. French far-right Front National (FN) party president Marine Le Pen in Lyon to support Christophe Boudot, local candidate to 2014 mayoral in Lyon during a press conference at Tête d’or meeting space on March 1, 2014 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

LYON, FRANCE - JANUARY 21: Lyon's mayor and socialist party's candidate for the March 2014 mayoral elections in Lyon, Gerard Collomb poses during a mayoral elections press conference on January 21, 2014 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

French Far-right National Front's Honour President Jean-Marie Le Pen In Visit In Lyon. (Photo by Bruno Vigneron/Getty Images)

Pierre Lellouche est membre de plusieurs groupes d'études internationaux visant au renforcement du lien transatlantique et à éclairer les grands mouvements qui animent les relations internationales. Il est notamment membre du comité de direction de Nuclear Threat Initiative, vice-président (France) de l'Atlantic Partnership, membre de la commission Trilatérale et de l'International Institute for Strategic Studies. Expert en relations internationales, partisan du libéralisme économique, il est membre du courant libéral de l'UMP «Les Réformateurs». Il est également l'auteur de la loi, votée à l'unanimité par le Parlement français le 16 décembre 2002, visant à aggraver les peines en cas de violence à caractère raciste ou antisémite. Il apporte son soutien en 2003 à la politique de guerre préventive en Irak menée par le gouvernement des États-Unis d'Amérique du président George W Bush. Il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages: L'Allié indocile : La France et l'OTAN, de la Guerre froide à l'Afghanistan, Éditions du Moment, 2009 Illusions gauloises, Grasset, 2006 La République immobile, Grasset, 1998 Le Nouveau Monde, de l'ordre de Yalta au désordre des nations, Grasset, 1992. Prix aujourd'hui, Hachette Pluriel, 1993 Le Millénaire de l'Apocalypse, roman, avec Florence Trystam, Flammarion, 1980 Le Couple franco-allemand et la Défense de l'Europe, avec Karl Kaiser, IFRI-Economica, 1986 L'Avenir de la guerre, essai, Mazarine, 1985 Pacifisme et dissuasion, IFRI-Economica, 1983 Photos: Bruno VIGNERON/Maya-Press