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 See also La Motte-Picquet (disambiguation) Picket (disambiguation) Pickett (disambiguation) Piquet (disambiguation), another alternative spelling for picket Piquette (disambiguation)