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Paquet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alain Paquet (born 1961), Canadian politician
- Anselme-Homère Pâquet (1830–1891), Canadian physician and politician
- Benjamin Pâquet (1832–1900), Canadian priest
- David Paquet, Canadian playwright
- Eugène Paquet (1867–1951), Canadian politician
- François-Xavier Wurth-Paquet (1801–1885), Luxembourgian politician
- Gilles Paquet (born 1936), Canadian economist
- Jean-Guy Paquet (born 1938), Canadia scientist and businessman
- Kévin Monnet-Paquet (born 1988), French football player
- Louis-Honoré Pâquet (1838–1915), Canadian priest and teacher
- Philippe Paquet, former French jockey
- Thérèse Paquet-Sévigny, Canadian diplomat
Usage examples of "paquet".
Cavalle, a fisherman named Paquet, who caught trout and crabs, and a cattle drover named Clovis.
Fourniers, Gauvreaus, Paquets, and Martells, whose origin is easy to discover.
Accordingly some days after, when the wind blew very fair and fresh, and the captain of the paquet, Lutwidge, said he believ'd she then went at the rate of thirteen knots, Kennedy made the experiment, and own'd his wager lost.
The other two paquets he still detained, carried them with him to Halifax, where he stayed some time to exercise the men in sham attacks upon sham forts, then alter'd his mind as to besieging Louisburg, and return'd to New York, with all his troops, together with the two paquets above mentioned, and all their passengers!