Antoine Tudal recounts the surprising circumstances in which, at the end of World War II, when he was thirteen and living a his step father Nicolas de Staël’s, he was initiated into Poetry by Reverdy. The author of La Lucarne ovale (The Oval Skylight), who had heard of his precocious talents, gave him the opportunity to publish his poems under the title Souspente, wrote for him a preface entitled “La Fonction du portier” (“The Function of the Doorman”), and convinced Braque to illustrate it. Antoine Tudal gives, with this tale of vocation, an evocation of Reverdy at the end of the war, and of the undeniable friendship of the Poet with the masters of Cubism.