Maurice Léon Bazalgette (8 May 1873 – 31 December 1928) was a French literary critic, biographer and translator.
Zweig recounts their friendship in his memoir, The World of Yesterday.
Bazalgette frequented the Abbaye de Créteil, a community of artists founded by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac.
He wrote for Clarté, La Vie Ouvrière, and from 1926 to 1928 he had a column in communist newspaper L'Humanité.
[4] He is buried in the cemetery of Avernes-sous-Exmes, Orne, where he owned a country house, the Moulin des Noës.