Carte de voeux adressée à son grand ami le journaliste bruxellois, également grand ami et biographe de Georges Brassens, André Tillieu

Illustrated New Year's card signed with 13 lines by 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.
A date inscribed in blue ballpoint pen at the head of the card.
Envelope included.
"Merci de tes voeux vieux frère... je te renvoie la balle... santé, sérénité, pognon pour le bi centenaire... pour toi et les tiens. Un livre me conduira peut-être à Bruxelles en mars et bien entendu je te ferai signe. Avec ma vive amitié. ABoudard." ["Thank you for your wishes old brother... I'm returning the favor... health, serenity, money for the bicentennial... for you and yours. A book may take me to Brussels in March and of course I'll let you know. With my warm 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 Parisian writer quickly showed him his friendship, considering him as one of the few 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, André Tillieu remained one of Alphonse's very last buddies.