"Merci encore... et dans la fraternité de Georges Brassens."

Dated and signed manuscript letter of 17 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.
"J'ai reçu ta formidable lettre, vieux frère, et elle m'a procuré un sacré plaisir. Hier j'ai fait enregistrer tes corrections chez Laffont pour une réimpression très prochaine. Pas le temps de t'écrire plus longuement, je suis un peu débordé, tu te doutes. As-tu reçu en même temps que Monsieur Joseph, le livre d'entretiens de Lucien d'Azay "Contre enquête" ? Si non, je vais te le faire envoyer. merci encore... et dans la fraternité de Georges Brassens. mon amitié. ABoudard." ["I received your wonderful letter, old brother, and it gave me tremendous pleasure. Yesterday I had your corrections registered at Laffont for a very forthcoming reprint. No time to write you at greater length, I'm a bit overwhelmed, as you can imagine. Did you receive at the same time as Monsieur Joseph, Lucien d'Azay's interview book 'Contre enquête'? If not, I'll have it sent to you. Thanks again... and in the fraternity of Georges Brassens. 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.