Antoine-Pierre-Louis Bazin (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan pjɛʁ lwi bazɛ̃]), or A. P. L. Bazin (26 March 1799 – January 1863) was a French sinologist born in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.
[1] Bazin studied at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832) and Stanislas Julien (1797-1873).
Beginning in 1840 he was a professor of Chinese at the École des langues orientales.
[2] During his career, he also served as assistant director of the Société Asiatique.
[3] He contributed numerous articles to the Journal asiatique and published translations of Yuan dynasty plays.