Chère Visiteuse

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Press cutting and photocopies included.
Autograph inscription signed by Alphonse Boudard to his close friend André Tillieu: "... who I hope will be somewhat amused by the journey of this dear visitor with my friendship."
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 very quickly showed him his friendship, considering him as one of the rare critics to understand him perfectly, to the point of explaining clearly 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 copious 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.