La première lettre manuscrite adressée par Alphonse Boudard à son grand ami André Tillieu, grand ami et biographe de Georges Brassens

Handwritten letter dated and signed, 24 lines by Alphonse Boudard to his great friend and companion in 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 handwritten note inscribed in black felt-tip pen by André Tillieu at the head of the letter: "1st letter from Alphonse".
Envelope included.
"Dear André Tillieu,
the second copy, that comes from Louis (Nucéra)... he must no longer have remembered that you were on the list and I saw that the first copy had gotten lost... (which often happens!) Of course give it to a broke friend... For Belgium "Mimile's method" best distributed by "The Assimil Method"... I'm going to mention what you tell me to Mrs. Pauvert (éditions de la Jeune Parque)... I sent you a copy yesterday through La Table Ronde. There you go, see you soon over a glass of friendship with my buddy Louis Nucéra. Best regards. Aboudard. Send me your article 1 rue Pierre Brossolette, 94, L'Hays les roses."
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 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 chronicles what he himself expressed only incompletely and sometimes confusedly in his books.
André Tillieu therefore 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 outings. As death gradually took away his best friends one by one, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last buddies.