"Ca fait toujours plaisir de savoir que la Cerise a des lecteurs compétants... (les autres achètent n'importe quoi... Papillon, Sagan ou Guy Descar...)"

Handwritten letter dated and signed with 20 lines from Alphonse Boudard 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.
Envelope included, a fold mark inherent to the letter's placement in the envelope.
"Ami,
merci de ton petit mot... Ca fait toujours plaisir de savoir que la Cerise a des lecteurs compétants (sic)... (les autres achètent n'importe quoi... Papillon, Sagan ou Guy Descar...) Le "Cinoche" est en panne. Il faudrait qu'ils me filent le Renaudot pour bien faire... mais ils ont d'autres hommes de lettres à fouetter. "L'ami" (de Louis Nucéra) mérite l'Interallié... etc... Je ne crois guère au miracle... aussi je me suis remis au cinoche cassecroûte... une adaptation de "Flic Story" pour Alain Delon. à bientôt j'espère devant le verre de l'amitié. Aboudard." ["Friend, thanks for your little note... It's always a pleasure to know that la Cerise has competent readers... (the others buy anything... Papillon, Sagan or Guy Descar...) The 'Cinema' is broken down. They should give me the Renaudot to do things right... but they have other men of letters to flog. 'L'ami' (by Louis Nucéra) deserves the Interallié... etc... I hardly believe in miracles... so I've gone back to cinema bread-and-butter work... an adaptation of 'Flic Story' for Alain Delon. see you soon I hope over a glass of friendship. Aboudard."]
André Tillieu the Brusselian, 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 quickly showed him his friendship, considering him one of the rare critics to understand him perfectly to the point of explaining clearly 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 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 loved to share hearty well-watered meals and cycling trips. As death gradually took away his best friends one by one, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last mates.