Patrice Bret (born 1949)[1] is a French historian of science and technology and a senior researcher at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré in Paris.

[1] From 2003 until his retirement in 2012, Patrice Bret was a research associate in the department of history in the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (UMR 8560) of the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (CRHST), a laboratory of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

[1][4] CHEAr became part of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale in the École Militaire as of 2010.

[7][8] On 22 May 2018 a research symposium was held in honor of Patrice Bret, at the Alexandre Koyré Center, on the role of science and technology in societies of the 18th and 19th centuries.

[10] His books include L'expedition d'Egypte, une enterprise des Lumieres, 1798-1801 (1998),[11] L'État, l'armée, la science.

A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution: Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan, 1782-1802, has been described as "a splendidly executed work of its sort.