Pascal Rabevolo · · Songs, films and French culture 
Alma and Alfred Hitchcock sent this rather cryptic message to a French-speaking friend, François Truffaut, who had just arrived in Beverly Hills in late 1973. This is, in fact, a coded message that you can decipher by carefully examining the alphabet right before your eyes….
Look closely… A letter is missing… And since it’s not there, we can say in the language of the speakers: A very happy “no…”