Education
Prytanée National Militaire.
Prytanée National Militaire.
Guillaume"s name is associated with Louisiana Vieille Taupe, which was an ultra left bookstore founded in 1965 and closed in 1972. The name was taken over by Guillaume, Serge Thion and Alain Guionnet in 1979 for the distribution of Holocaust denial books and the Amadeo Bordiga pamphlet, Auschwitz, or the great alibi. From 1957 to 1959 he prepared for archery at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr at the Prytanée National Militaire, and became eligible, but changed his mind.
He joined Socialisme ou Barbarie, without playing a "remarkable role" according to the account of Cornelius Castoriadis.
He fought in the Algerian War. The current bookstore named Louisiana Vieille Taupe in Paris sells books that are fundamental to these movements.
In 1980, Guillaume edited the Noam Chomsky essay Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression and the 1996 Roger Garaudy book The Founding Myths of Modern Israel.
In 1965, with the help of Jacques Baynac, he opened Louisiana Vieille Taupe bookstore, which was linked to the group Pouvoir ouvrier, a French ultra-left group sharing a critical stance to Marxism as Socialisme ou Barbarie from whom they had split in 1963. Then, Louisiana Vieille Taupe became the name of a small, informal group of people interested in studying the ultra left, Situationist International, and Rosa Luxemburg.
A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and Pierre Souyri. In September 1967, when his exclusion was imminent, Guillaume and Beynac left Pouvoir ouvrier, followed by most of the young members of the group.