title: Picquet
text: # Picquet
  
  Picquet may refer to:
  
  ## An alternative spelling for Picket
  
  * Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation; or a group of soldiers detailed for a specific duty (e.g., fire picquet)
  * Picquet (punishment), a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe
  
  ## People
  
  * François Picquet (1708–1781), Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734
  * Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720–1791), French admiral
  * Aimé Picquet du Boisguy (1776–1839), French chouan general during the French Revolution
  * Louisa Picquet (c. 1828,–1896), American whose life became the subject of a biography Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
  * Christian Picquet, pseudonym of Christian Lamothe (born 1952), French activist and politician
  