[1] His honors include reaching the rank of General in the French Army and receiving the Académie française Prix Albéric Rocheron in 1969 for Histoire du parti communiste chinois and again in 1973 for his book, Le parti communiste chinois au pouvoir.
[4] In 1945 Guillermaz was sent to China as military attaché, a post which he held in Nanjing for the next six years, and saw the 1949 takeover of the city by the People's Liberation Army in 1948.
In 1964, shortly before France extended diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic, he was sent to Taiwan to inform President Chiang Kai-shek of the impending move.
He told Generalissimo Chiang that his situation was much like that of General DeGaulle, who was in exile in London during World War II, and, like him, might return to the "mainland."
Guillermaz himself, however, once again was made military attache to the French Embassy in Beijing, arriving, as he had in 1937, on the eve of conflict.
[1] In 1958, at the suggestion of the 6th section of the Practical School for Higher Studies (EPHE) — which subsequently became the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) — he agreed to set up and run the Le Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (Center for Research and Documentation on modern and contemporary China).
[1] After retirement from the Centre in 1976, he lived the last twenty years of his life in the village where he had been born, Dauphiné, in the countryside near Grenoble.