Claim: Jean Marie Auguste Bachelot de La Pylaie (May 25, 1786- October 12, 1856) was a botanist, explorer and archaeologist who  studied at Laval, and then in Paris at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
Evidence: Jean Marie Auguste Bachelot de La Pylaie (May 25, 1786 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine – October 12, 1856) was a French botanist, explorer and archaeologist. He studied at Laval, and then in Paris at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he was a pupil of Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850).