Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour
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Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour
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Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour was a French botanist and ornithologist. Born at the family seat, Le Villard, near Chalon-sur-Saône, Leschenault de la Tour arrived in Paris after the death of his father, a judge at Lyon. Leschenault de La Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803. He collected a great many new specimens in 1801 and 1802, though Baudin's journal suggests that he did not work particularly hard; apparently t
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French botanist and ornithologist (1773-1826)
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