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

Manuscript letter dated and signed with 15 lines from Alphonse Boudard to his great friend and companion for boozy lunches, the Brussels journalist André Tillieu, who was, like Alphonse Boudard, a great friend of Georges Brassens but also of Louis Nucéra.
Envelope enclosed, with one crease inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing.
"Old man,
your wife told you that I received "l'Album de famille" and that I thank you... I'm running a bit late, but I have the devil's own workload! Screenplays, TV films and then my novel that I'm revising meticulously... like a motor before the twenty-four hours of Le Mans. Agreed for the meal with Jean Giono's daughter... give me a sign a bit in advance. With my regards to your wife and my fraternal handshake. Aboudard."
André Tillieu the Brussels native, 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 Parisian sardonic 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 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 the Grim Reaper gradually took away his best friends, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last mates.