^The International studio: Volumes 21-22 1904 "Jules Gustave Besson is a pupil of Gustave Moreau, which may seem surprising at first, seeing that here we find ourselves face to face with a talent essentially different from that of the master — a talent which would seem to owe nothing to the . It cannot be disputed, of course, that Besson adopts a formula of realistic art which is at the very antipodes of the idealism whereto Moreau was always devoted ; he abandons the forms of legend and of dream which live in Moreau's work, "
^L'Indochine: un lieu d'échange culturel? : les peintres français . Nadine André-Pallois, École française d'Extrême-Orient - 1997 "Après André Joyeux, Jules Besson, Stéphane Brecq (dates non connues) est à son tour nommé au poste de directeur de l'école d'arts appliqués de Gia Dinh (1940-1942).
^Vietnam à travers l'architecture coloniale Arnauld Le Brusq, Léonard de Selva - 1999 "Durant les années 1930, son directeur, le peintre Jules Besson dirige la réalisation ."
