Bristol manuscrit adressé à son grand ami le journaliste bruxellois, grand ami et biographe de Georges Brassens, André Tillieu

Signed manuscript letter on headed paper of 20 lines dated by Alphonse Boudard, from his home at 11 rue Henri Monnier in the ninth arrondissement of Paris, 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 Jean Giono.
Envelope included.
"Vieux,
Merci de ton aimable petit mot...
Enfin j'ai fait ce que j'ai pu et si le résultat a été bon, tant mieux.
Je n'arrive plus à remettre la main sur un exemplaire de la Méthode" ["Old friend,
Thank you for your kind little note...
Well, I did what I could and if the result was good, so much the better.
I can no longer get my hands on a copy of the Method"] (the Method of Mimile, the slang Bible written by Alphonse Boudard). "Si je t'en trouve un je l'envoie à ta filleule en priorité. De toutes façons les éditions du Pré-aux-clercs vont relancer le livre à la fin de l'année... avec une nouvelle présentation et de nouvelles illustrations... + qqs chapitres de rajeunissement. Si nous pouvions en faire autant... Vivra verra... à quoi bon se mettre la rate au court bouillon ! Toute mon amitié. Aboudard." ["If I find one I'll send it to your goddaughter as a priority. In any case the Pré-aux-clercs editions are going to relaunch the book at the end of the year... with a new presentation and new illustrations... + some rejuvenation chapters. If only we could do the same... Time will tell... what's the point of getting worked up! All my friendship. 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 witty Parisian writer 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 then became part of the small circle of Alphonse Boudard's true friends on the same level as le Gros Georges (Georges Brassens), le Niçois (Louis Nucéra) and René Fallet with whom he liked 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.