Henri Tasso (8 October 1882 – 12 February 1944) was a French Socialist politician.

[1] His parents, Michel-Théodore Tasso and Dominique Eusébie Marie Montefrestini, were Italian immigrants to France.

[1] He supported the naturalisation of Italian immigrants, even those who were poor and unemployed.

[2][4] On 8 October 1938 a fire burnt down Les Nouvelles Galeries, a department store on the Canebière.

[5] Others have argued he was dismissed "because of his inappropriate financial management and chronic overhiring of municipal workers.