"J'ai remis "La fermeture" mon livre sur les claques à Laffont. Il sort en avril après les turbulences électorales.

Dated and signed manuscript letter of 28 lines from Alphonse Boudard to his great friend and companion of boozy lunches, the Brussels journalist André Tillieu, who was, like Alphonse Boudard, a great friend of Georges Brassens but also of Louis Nucéra.
Two fold marks inherent to the envelope folding of the letter, envelope included.
"Vieux,
merci de ta petite carte... il n'est pas encore trop tard pour te renvoyer la balle des meilleurs voeux pour 86... souhaitons que toute se passe le mieux possible. aujourd'hui Louis (Nucéra) est entré à l'hosto... juste q.qs jours... on va lui pulvériser un calcul au laser. Le dernier cri de la médecine en ce domaine. Si le pauvre Georges (Brassens) avait pu connaître ça ! Je pensais avoir un Guignol's band que je n'avais pas... d'où un malentendu... etc. Ma pièce est en rade, le théâtre qui devait me la monter est en faillite... donc je repars à zéro. et je ne désespère pas d'avoir Galabru à l'affiche. J'ai remis "La fermeture" mon livre sur les claques à Laffont. Il sort en avril après les turbulences électorales. Mais d'ici peut-être aurons-nous l'occase de partager une croûte ensemble. Avec mon amitié. ABoudard." ["Old friend, thanks for your little card... it's not too late yet to return the ball with best wishes for 86... let's hope everything goes as well as possible. Today Louis (Nucéra) went into the hospital... just a few days... they're going to pulverize a stone with laser. The latest in medicine in this field. If poor Georges (Brassens) could have known that! I thought I had a Guignol's band that I didn't have... hence a misunderstanding... etc. My play is stranded, the theater that was supposed to stage it is bankrupt... so I'm starting from zero again. And I don't despair of having Galabru in the cast. I delivered 'La fermeture' my book about brothels to Laffont. It comes out in April after the electoral turbulence. But perhaps by then we'll have the chance to share a crust together. With my friendship. ABoudard."]
André Tillieu the Brusselian, very close friend and biographer of Georges Brassens, maintained an epistolary correspondence with Alphonse Boudard for nearly thirty years, from 1972 until the latter's death in 2000.
The cheeky Parisian writer very 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 alongside Big Georges (Georges Brassens), the man from Nice (Louis Nucéra) and René Fallet, with whom he loved to share copious well-watered meals and cycling expeditions. As death gradually took away his best friends one by one, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last buddies.