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 Musum national d'histoire naturelle.
Jean Marie Auguste Bachelot de La Pylaie (May 25, 1786 in Fougeres, Ille-et-Vilaine  October 12, 1856) was a French botanist, explorer and archaeologist. He studied at Laval, and then in Paris at the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, where he was a pupil of Georges Cuvier (17691832) and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (17771850). 
