Charles Louis Laurent (18 March 1879 – 10 July 1965) was a French trade union leader.
From 1899, Laurent worked for the Deposits and Consignments Fund, eventually rising to become office manager.
It led a strike in the postal service that year, and this convinced Laurent to reform the body as the more formal Civil Servants' Federation, becoming its general secretary.
In 1924, the government raided the union's offices in the hope of discovering evidence of fraud, but there was none, and this led Laurent into opposition to the National Bloc.
[1][2] Laurent opposed the Vichy government, later moving to London and serving on the National Council of the Resistance, then on the Provisional Consultative Assembly.