Jules Gustave Besson (1 August 1868 in

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– ?) was a French painter. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Élie Delaunay, and particularly

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at the Beaux-Arts, Paris, but did not follow his teacher's style. In his fifties he moved to Indochina. He won the

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in 1925 and in 1926 succeeded

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as director of the école d'arts appliqués at

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. His students in Saigon were not as numerous or as influential as those of his contemporary

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at the

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, but their works left a vivid record of life in the south of Vietnam and Cambodia. The school also encouraged the students in the art of photography.Vietnam.net Photography exhibition of the students of Gia Dinh
/ref> He was succeeded at the school by the third director, Stéphane Brecq (1894–1955).

Works

* Au Pays Noir, 1898 - in the industrial English

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