Picolet Chardin II

Picolet Chardin II is one of the oddest characters in the series. He is a "speed eater" from the "La Belle France School of Martial Arts" and able to eat so fast that one is unable to even see his mouth move.

Picolet appears at Furinkan High School and quickly devours almost everyone's lunches. Ranma, having a large appitite himself quickly challenges Picolet to a match of speed eating which Ranma

quickly loses. It is later discoverd that instead of paying the bill at Picolet's father's restaurant Soun promised one of his then unborn daughters as Picolet's bride.

Ranma then decides to say that he will become Picolet's bride in order to learn Picolet's techniques and get revenge for his earlier loss.

Ranma learns a new technique to defeat Picolet Chardin: the parley du foie gras.He defeats Picolet and Nobody needs to marry Picolet.

Picolet is not a "bad" character, and for the most part plays fair, even willingly giving Ranma a hint to what the parley du foie gras actually is.

Picolet is the current owner and master of the Chardin Family restaurant and martial arts dojo. He is an expert in what is called La Belle France School of Martial Arts. In this unique form of combat, the participants compete to see who can finish his meal first and in the most elegant manner, with the loser having to pay for all the expensive food served during the duel.

Picolet entered the scene during a visit to Furinkan High School were he declared that one of the three Tendo daughters would be his future wife and subsequently defeating Ranma — who interrupted his toast — in Martial Arts Dining. It was later explained that Soun Tendo was in debt to the Chardin Family and that he promised to give them one of his daughters in marriage as payment.

Ranma, still angry at being defeated earlier, volunteered to pose as Picolet’s future bride in order to learn Martial Arts Dining and beat him in a rematch. It turns out that the rules dictate that the mouth of the participants must not visibly move during a duel, otherwise, the contestant will be penalized for lack of elegance. As the members of the aristocratic Chardin Family have the ability to stretch their mouths and tongue in a superhuman way, this constitutes a seemingly insurmountable handicap.

Eventually, after enduring gruesome training under Madame St. Paul, Ranma managed to defeat Picolet and free the Tendo sisters from the engagement agreement. Unfortunately, Picolet returned to the dojo shortly thereafter to claim the money Ranma owed him for the food they ate during their first duel. It was never shown in either the anime or manga whether he actually managed to pay at that time, or promised to do so at some point in the future.

Picolet appeared a second time in the anime, where he was suspected of suffering of vampirism. During this incident, Ranma finally revealed his curse to the other boy, shocking him back into his proper state of mind.

Madame St Paul She is a determined trainer, and is very pleased with Ranma as a pupil, right up until Ranma discovers the "Parlay du Foie Gras" - a forbidden technique.

She manages to prepare Picolet against this technique, but does not account for the speed with which Ranma can adapt a technique under pressure.

Chardin Picolet III (Picolet Chardin III) is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½.