| Charles Bruneau | |
| Birth Date: | 19 November 1883 |
| Birth Place: | Givet, France[1] |
| Death Place: | Paris |
| Burial Place: | Cimetière parisien de Bagneux[2] |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Grammarian, linguist, philologist |
Charles Bruneau (1883–1969) was a French grammarian, linguist and philologist.
Bruneau grew up in a village where the language of communication was Walloon, but surrounded by areas where the regional language was Champenois. This prompted him, at the instigation of Jules Gilliéron, to conduct dialectological surveys throughout the region around Givet, both in France and Belgium. He was a grammar scholar (1906) and doctor of letters (1913).
His research was published in four books:
Charles Bruneau took over Ferdinand Brunot's l’Histoire de la langue française after his death, publishing volumes xii and xiii (1948-1972). He also resumed and recast Précis de grammaire historique de la langue française, following which it was known as "Brunot and Bruneau".
He had four children, including Anne, mother of Pascal Quignard, and Jean, an academic expert on Gustave Flaubert.