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Touchet is a surname, and may refer to:

Members of the English peerage:

George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley was an English peer.

George John Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley.

George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 21st Baron Audley.

Other people:

George Anselm Touchet, also spelt Tuchet, was the Roman Catholic chaplain of Queen Catherine of Braganza, the wife of King Charles II.

Jacques Touchet was a French illustrator. His first book, "Croquis d'un Prisonnier de Guerre" was published in 1917. He illustrated numerous French books, until the early fifties.

Marie Touchet Mistress to Charles IX of France

Marie Touchet, Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France.

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