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Pushed by the desire to know, raised by the endurance of the seeker, the history of science was built in large part through the action of great travelers. Strewn with difficulties it is also littered with encounters. The history of the human sciences, wich places the centrality of the human at the heart of their concerns – and especially the history of music and musicology – cannot be separated from the notions of sharing and exchange. If the circulation of knowledge goes hand in hand with the circulation of beings – both effective and virtual through their works – and if we are allowed to think that part of the development of science and intellect is related to the development of human relations, we can therefore observe the construction of the international networks in a given domain through the bilaterality of a human relationship. In the Francophone sphere and in musicology, language has been a major asset for encounter, knowledge of the other, exchange and joint construction of musicological thought. In this article, we will circumscribe our reflection to a certain number of founding musicological exchanges. We are particularly interested in the university road of Mahmoud Guettat in France and in its impact on the construction of tunisian musicology especially in the academic plan through the foundation of the Higher Institute of Music of Tunis. We also refer to Mohamed Zinelabidine and to the human relations that allowed the construction of Franco-tunisian networks and partnerships in musicology. Going back in time, the meeting that took place at Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Saïd during the first half oh the 20th century allowed to unite on Tunisian soil, in a French expression and through music, the two shores of the Mediterranean by the collaboration of Tunisian, French, Syrian and Lebanese actors. Since human relationships are fundamentally reciprocal, the contribution of the other cannot be observed in a one-way vision. The exchange that the encounter involved, while building the musicology of the knowledge seeker also allowed the development of the knowledge smuggler. On both sides of the Mediterranean, actors from the south to the north got richer, enriched their native land and their host land; and vice versa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]