My memories of this time are pretty vague. Robert Delford Brown and his friends had come to Ben’s boutique and they had invited us to joint them at Hotel Négresco. There were 4 or 5 of us, certainly Ben and Robert Bozzi, maybe Annie Vautier, but I’m not sure about that, and who else ? I was thinking that the réception had been organized just for us, Ben and the Fluxmen from Nice. We were received in the following manner, champagne offered (I’ve kept the cork marked Négresco, which I used in one of my Tiroirs aux vieilleries-Junk Drawers), then a visit followed, with, of course, an installation not interesting enough to remember, except that we passed the bathroom : in the bathtub a young woman naked in a foam bath…Like J.-J. Lebel covered her girls’ with cream. The décor of the time had interessed (and impressed) me, a heavy bathtub and large golden faucets, the furniture, the fabric, etc. A staggering luxury for us who were rather broke. All this was a very belated surrealism for me, a small game of the bourgeoisie without invention. I understood nothing of what was said. It didn’t seem as though Ben was any more convinced than we were, and there were as a result…other meetings.