About
Mission
This site is intended to become the heritage reference on Alfred Tomatis and his work. It gathers, orders and makes consultable a dispersed documentary heritage — articles, communications, interviews, original documents — for the use of researchers, students, journalists, biographers and historians of science.
It is an archives-and-memory site, not a commercial one. There is no shop and no sales pitch. The documents are presented for what they are: sources, dated and referenced.
Scope
The site covers the man and his work from the heritage angle: the historical material, the texts, the devices, the memory of witnesses. Scientific and professional matters on the one hand, and commercial matters on the other, fall to other poles.
Ecosystem
This site belongs to an ecosystem devoted to the work of Alfred Tomatis, organised into distinct poles: heritage — the object of this site —, science and the profession, and equipment. The strand devoted to equipment is handled separately at bessonofswitzerland.ch.
Creation and maintenance
This site was created and has been maintained by Christophe Besson for more than twenty years, on a voluntary basis and entirely free of charge.
Acknowledgements and sources
The archives presented on this site come from multiple sources and from essential contributions:
- Original documents received directly from Alfred Tomatis
- Documentary contributions from:
- Pierre Solier
- Paul Madolle
- Marie Blons
These original documents were digitised, restored and catalogued by Christophe Besson.
Ethical principles
This site operates according to the following principles:
- Free access to the documentary heritage
- Transparency regarding the sources and provenance of the documents
- Respect for past research work and contributions
- Absence of any commercial purpose
Reserved rights
Free and open access to this heritage does not amount to any waiver of rights. The documents are made available for consultation, study and research; their reproduction, distribution or reuse, in any form whatsoever, remain subject to prior authorisation.
These archives remain the property of their respective authors and rightsholders. Their publication on this site authorises no third party to appropriate them, to exploit them for their own benefit or to claim ownership of them.
Contact
For any question concerning this site or the documents presented on it, you may write to christophe@besson.es.