"A partir de demain je rejoins la rue Smolett et son champion cycliste écrivain. Au 42...".."

Signed manuscript card of 16 lines by Alphonse Boudard, on a visiting card, to his great friend and companion of well-watered lunches, the Brussels journalist André Tillieu who was, like Alphonse Boudard, a great friend of Georges Brassens but also of Louis Nucéra.
A year (92) added in blue ballpoint pen in the upper right corner of the card to specify the date.
Envelope included.
"Vieux,
merci mille et une fois pour tes petits mots et les articles découpés dans la Presse belge. Avec mon éditeur ça voir le jour moins vite ! On ne peut être partout. meilleure santé à ta femme et bonnes vacances tout de même. A partir de demain je rejoins la rue Smolett (à Nice) et son champion cycliste écrivain (Louis Nucéra). Au 42 ... (telef 92.04.10.95) si tu descends par là, on sera content de te voir. mon amitié. AB." ["Old friend,
thank you a thousand and one times for your little notes and the articles cut from the Belgian Press. With my publisher it sees the light less quickly! One cannot be everywhere. better health to your wife and good holidays nonetheless. Starting tomorrow I'm joining rue Smolett (in Nice) and its champion cyclist writer (Louis Nucéra). At 42... (phone 92.04.10.95) if you come down that way, we'll be happy to see you. my friendship. AB."]
André Tillieu from Brussels, very close friend and biographer of Georges Brassens, maintained an epistolary correspondence with Alphonse Boudard for almost thirty years, from 1972 until the latter's death in 2000.
The cheeky Parisian writer very quickly showed him his friendship, considering him as one of the rare critics to understand him perfectly to the point of clearly explaining in his chronicles what he himself expressed only incompletely and sometimes confusedly in his books.
André Tillieu thus became part of the small circle of true friends of Alphonse Boudard along with le Gros Georges (Georges Brassens), le Niçois (Louis Nucéra) and René Fallet with whom he loved to share hearty well-watered meals and cycling trips. As death gradually took away his best friends, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last pals.