Bristol manuscrit adressé à son grand ami le journaliste bruxellois, également grand ami et biographe de Georges Brassens, André Tillieu lui présentant ses voeux pour l'année 1984

Signed manuscript card of 21 lines from Alphonse Boudard, on a printed visiting card, to his great friend and companion of wine-filled lunches, the Brussels journalist André Tillieu, who was, like Alphonse Boudard, a great friend of Georges Brassens but also of Louis Nucéra.
Envelope included.
"vieux, oui le hasard fait bien les choses... surtout que l'interview date de mon dernier passage à Bruxelles début novembre. Tout va bien pour le livre, mais mapièce quitte les planches. (As-tu reçu le livre ?) J'espère tout de même te voir à Paris bientôt. En attendant je te souhaite la fameuse bonne année. Qu'elle soit heureuse, fructueuse admirable... artistique etc... et... avec mon amitié qui t'accompagne. ABoudard." ["old friend, yes chance does things well... especially since the interview dates from my last visit to Brussels in early November. Everything is going well for the book, but my play is leaving the stage. (Did you receive the book?) I still hope to see you in Paris soon. In the meantime I wish you the famous happy new year. May it be happy, fruitful, admirable... artistic etc... and... with my friendship that accompanies you. ABoudard."]
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 irreverent Parisian writer quickly showed him his friendship, considering him one of the rare critics to understand him perfectly to the point of clearly explaining in his reviews what he himself expressed only incompletely and sometimes confusedly in his books.
André Tillieu thus became part of the small circle of Alphonse Boudard's true friends alongside 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 one by one, André Tillieu remained one of Alphonse's very last pals.