"Voila, je viens de finir encore un livre. Celui-là de divertissement pure (sic) et anticlérical. "Madame de Saint Sulpice". Le roman d'une taulière qui tient un bordel de curés entre les deux guerres."

Handwritten letter dated and signed, 37 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.
This missive is moreover written from the home of Louis Nucéra where Alphonse Boudard spends a few days of summer vacation each year.
A fold mark inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing.
"ami,
merci de ta lettre. tu m'encourages toujours et, là, c'est encore plus important. Je suis d'ailleurs en piste pour le prix Giono, mais j'y ai de redoutables concurrents soutenus par leurs éditeurs Mazis basta ! vivra verra... photo : j'ai quelques clichés à Paris et je t'en enverrai un en rentrant. De toute façon le livre parait en début septembre. Si tu es pressé demande à Claudine Lemaire ed. Laffont 24 av. Marceau 75008. fautes : Mea culpa pour Yvonne de Galais. Impardonnable. Les autres sont apparues après les corrections sur les deuxièmes épreuves. On n'en sort pas. Et il y a aussi le docteur Goebbels avec un seul B (Tant pis pour sa gueule !) Louis a quelques ennuis acec sa femme toujours malade. Il l'accompagne demain en cure à Chatel Guyon. Voila, je viens de finir encore un livre. Celui-là de divertissement pure et anticlérical. "Madame de Saint Sulpice". Le roman d'une taulière qui tient un bordel de curés entre les deux guerres. J'espère aller à Bruxelles pour fourguer ma salade et ça me fera surtout l'occase de prendre avec toi le verre de l'amitié. ton pote. ABoudard." ["friend,
thank you for your letter. you always encourage me and, here, it's even more important. I'm actually in the running for the Giono prize, but I have formidable competitors supported by their publishers Mazis basta! we'll see... photo: I have some shots in Paris and I'll send you one when I get back. In any case the book comes out in early September. If you're in a hurry ask Claudine Lemaire ed. Laffont 24 av. Marceau 75008. mistakes: Mea culpa for Yvonne de Galais. Unforgivable. The others appeared after corrections on the second proofs. We can't get out of it. And there's also doctor Goebbels with only one B (Too bad for his face!) Louis has some troubles with his wife who's always sick. He's accompanying her tomorrow to take the waters at Chatel Guyon. There, I've just finished another book. This one pure entertainment and anticlerical. "Madame de Saint Sulpice". The novel of a madam who runs a brothel for priests between the wars. I hope to go to Brussels to peddle my wares and it will especially give me the chance to have a drink of friendship with you. your buddy. 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 mocking Parisian writer very quickly showed him his friendship, considering him one of the rare critics to understand him perfectly to the point of clearly explaining 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 hearty well-watered meals and cycling trips. As the grim reaper gradually took away his best friends one by one, André Tillieu would remain one of Alphonse's very last buddies.