"Le paradis d'Anne Béranger !"

Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart to André-Philippe Hersin. A few lines in blue ink on the verso of a color photographic view of the Ziguinchor market (Senegal).
Journalist, dance critic and editor-in-chief of Les Saisons de la danse, Hersin was a staunch advocate of Béjart’s choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles in his journal as well as monographic booklets to his work.
"Le paradis d'Anne Béranger ! Je ramènerai moi-même certaines tenues surprenantes. Je pense souvent à vous ici (ne riez pas) je vous embrasse. Maurice"
In 1977, Maurice Béjart founded the Mudra-Afrique school in Dakar, thereby honoring the memory of his Senegalese great-grandmother Fatou Diagne, grandmother of his father, the métis philosopher Gaston Berger.