French scientist (1773-1826).
Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lwi klod teɔdɔʁ lɛʃno də la tuʁ]; 13 November 1773 – 14 March 1826) was a French botanist and ornithologist. Born at the family seat (since 1718), 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 ha