Victor Bourret (22 September 1877 – 5 August 1949)[1] was a French general and military administrator.

[1] Assessed by the British as a "political general ... of little of no worth," he was alleged to have formed a screen which restricted contact between the minister and the military officers under his command.

[1] On the outbreak of World War II, Bourret was given command of the Fifth Army, stationed in Alsace.

As the army retreated, he went to Fort de Girancourt, part of the outdated Séré de Rivières fortifications[4] He was taken prisoner on 25 June 1940 at Gérardmer and spent five years in captivity in the Königstein Fortress in Saxony.

After the war he wrote a monograph about the fall of France entitled "The Tragedy of the French Army".