Baron Charles Pierre René Victor Corvisart (KCMG) (29 June 1857 – 7 May 1939) was a general in the French Army who rose to prominence in World War I and a diplomat.

He was born at Château de Saint-Cloud, outside of Paris, and was a playmate of the Prince Imperial as a child.

From January 1900 to July 1904, Corvisart was a lieutenant-colonel and military attache at the French embassy in Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently served as an official observer to Japanese operations in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

[1] On 28 July 1911, Corvisart was promoted to brigadier general and was in command of the 11th Dragoon Brigade at the start of World War I.

After the end of the war, he served as a military attache to the French embassy in London from 2 September 1918.