Georges Marie René Picot (in French piko/; 24 December 1838 - 16 August 1909) was a French lawyer and historian.
His main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874.
Georges Picot was born in Paris, son of Charles Picot (Orléans, 4 August 1795 – Paris, 31 January 1870) and his wife Henriette Bidois (Paris, 1799 – Paris, 19 November 1862). He married in Saint-Bouize on 19 June 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, 9 October 1844 – Paris, 2 August 1914), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and, according to some (though disputed by many) a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769).
He had seven children, the third of whom was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, and the fifth, Geneviève Picot, was the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.[1] Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Jacques Georges-Picot, chairman of Suez Canal Company.
He died in Allevard-les-Bains.