Claim: Jean Marie Auguste Bachelot de La Pylaie (May 25, 1786 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine- October 12, 1856) was a botanist, explorer, archaeologist, author of various archaeological studies and  first known collector of local species in Saint Pierre 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 was the author of various archaeological studies on Brittany. He was the first known collector of local species in Saint Pierre. 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).