Athanase-Henri Bassinet (16 May 1850 - 12 February 1914) was a laborer who entered politics and became a senator of France from 1899 to 1914.
[1] In the election of 27 April 1873 Bassinet was an active member of the Jobbé-Duval committee that supported the candidacy of the Radical Republican Désiré Barodet in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
The Galerie des machines built for the Exposition Universelle (1889) was transformed into a kind of vast encampment in which the marchers would rest, eat, and also perform.
[2] Bassinet voted for the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State proposed by Aristide Briand that guaranteed freedom of worship.
[3] Bassinet discussed a loan for organizing the gas service (1905), creation of a national school of Arts and Crafts in Paris (1906), recruitment for the army (1910) and expropriation for public utility (1911).