Transcription of the interview with Jacques de Larosière, Assistant Director then Director of the French Treasury from 1967 to 1974 and 1974 to 1978 respectively, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 22 May 2008 in his office in Paris. The interview was conducted by Frédéric Clavert, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the International Monetary System and the end of the Bretton Woods system, France’s international and European monetary policy under Georges Pompidou, reactions to the Werner Plan and the creation of the European Monetary System, the Group of Ten, the Delors Committee and Economic and Monetary Union, the role of the European Central Bank, France’s role in the economic and monetary integration process and the role and workings of the EBRD.