Lettre manuscrite adressée par Alphonse Boudard à son grand ami le journaliste bruxellois, grand ami et biographe de Georges Brassens, André Tillieu

Handwritten letter dated and signed with 11 lines from 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.
Envelope included, a fold mark inherent to the letter's placement in the envelope.
"Pote,
bien reçu les numéros de "Relax"... que te dire ? ... merci bien sûr, mais je crois que c'est superflu. Je ne sais pas si je mérite toutes ces fleurs. en tout cas à bientôt j'espère devant le pot de l'amitié. Aboudard." ["Mate, received the issues of 'Relax'... what can I say? ... thanks of course, but I think it's superfluous. I don't know if I deserve all these flowers. in any case see you soon I hope over a drink of friendship. Aboudard."]
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 cheeky Parisian writer 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 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 trips. As death gradually took away his best friends one by one, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last mates.