"Si le "Nouvel Obs" me fait de pareilles fleurs, c'est que le climat change un peu..."

Manuscript letter dated and signed, 18 lines from Alphonse Boudard to his great friend and companion of wine-soaked 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 placing the letter in the envelope.
"Friend,
thank you for sending me this cutting. I hadn't noticed it. If "Nouvel Obs" pays me such compliments it's because the climate is changing a bit... indeed! Didn't receive your note with the article for "Relax"; the last thing I received was the piece from "Rail" I thought it was from you under a pseudonym. See you soon I hope... I had lunch with Louis (Nucéra) last week... we're waiting for you. greetings and fraternity... Aboudard."
André Tillieu the Brusselsman, 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 mocking Parisian writer very quickly showed him his friendship, considering him as 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 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, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last pals.