Nicolas Jean Hugou de Bassville or Basseville (7 February 1743 – 13 January 1793), French journalist and diplomat, was born at Abbéville.

Then, through the Girondist minister Lebrun-Tondu, he entered the diplomatic service, went in May 1792 as secretary of legation to Naples and was shortly afterwards sent, without official status, to Rome.

On 13 January 1793 Bassville, together with his wife, young son and a French naval officer Charles de la Flotte, drove by coach to the Via del Corso.

Although Pius VI had sent his personal physician to attend to the dying Bassville, the affair was magnified in the Convention, being considered "a deliberate murder of the representative of the Republic" by the pope's orders.

[1] Among his writings is included Mémoires historiques, critiques et politiques sur la Révolution de France (Paris 1790; English trans.