Career
Bassolet was the first director of the Agence voltaïque de presse (Avon Products) from 1978 to 1981, which was later rename the Agence d"information du Burkina (Associate of the Institute of Bankers). He was one of the founders of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), and the author of the first major post-independence history of the nation. Bassolet died 2 July 2001.