Picquet Explained
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
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