What is Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1873|6|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Domfront (Orne)|Domfront]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1956|6|4|1873|6|23|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} --> | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = [[Botany]] | workplaces = {{Unbulleted list | [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]] | [[École pratique des hautes études]] | [[French Academy of Sciences|Académie des Sciences]]}} | alma_mater = [[University of Caen Lower Normandy|Caen University]] | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = A.Chev. | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = }} '''Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier''' was a [[France|French]] [[botanist]], and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of [[French colonial empire|French]] Africa and [[Côte d'Ivoire]]. [[File:Fogo-Echium vulcanorum (2).JPG|thumb|right|''[[Echium vulcanorum]]'', a [[Cape Verde|Capeverdean]] plant discovered and named by Chevalier.]] ==Biography== Chevalier was born on 23 June 1873 in [[Domfront (Orne)|Domfront]], a town in [[Orne]], [[Lower Normandy]], [[France]]. His family had a small farm in [[Normandy]] and he studied first in Domfront and then in [[Caen]]. He finished high school in 1891 and began to study at [[University of Caen Lower Normandy|Caen University]] and, in 1893, Élie Antoine Octave Lignier, botanist at the university, put him in charge of making the