"J'espère te voir bientôt à Paris avec Georges Brassens et Louis..."

Handwritten letter dated and signed with 21 lines from Alphonse Boudard to his great friend and companion of convivial lunches, the Brussels journalist André Tillieu who was, like Alphonse Boudard, a great friend of Georges Brassens but also of Jean Giono.
A fold mark inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing, envelope included.
"ami,
bien reçu "Relax"... Mille mercis... Je suis toujours un peu confus par tout ce que tu écris sur mes livres. Je ne suis peut-être pas si haut ? Tu me forces à me poser des questions. Enfin, je fais de mon mieux. J'espère te voir bientôt à Paris avec Georges Brassens et Louis... A moins que j'aille faire un tour vers Lille puis Bruxelles. De toute façon je te ferai signe. Mes amitiés à ta femme. J'espère que pour ta fille les choses sont en place... J'ai vu des tas de cas de pneumos spontanés, ça s'arrange très bien (j'ai eu un double pneumo pendant cinq ans, mais c'était en vue de me guérir). A bientôt... encore merci et toute mon amitié. ABoudard." ["friend, well received 'Relax'... A thousand thanks... I am always somewhat confused by all that you write about my books. Perhaps I am not so great? You force me to ask myself questions. Anyway, I do my best. I hope to see you soon in Paris with Georges Brassens and Louis... Unless I take a trip towards Lille then Brussels. In any case I will let you know. My regards to your wife. I hope that for your daughter things are falling into place... I have seen lots of cases of spontaneous pneumothorax, it works out very well (I had a double pneumo for five years, but it was to cure me). See you soon... thanks again and 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 very 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 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 on equal footing with 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.