Marie Clémence Lesson

Marie Clémence Lesson (March 2 1800 – August 4 1834)^[1] was an illustrator and the second wife of French ornithologist René Lesson, who she married in 1827.^[2] She trained as a natural history artist in Paris^[3] and her illustrations appear in her husband's book Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches. Her father was the French zoologist Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix.^{[citation needed]} Lesson died of Cholera in 1834.^[4]

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References

1. "Family tree of Clémence DUMONT de SAINTE-CROIX". Geneanet. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
2. Mearns, Barbara; Mearns, Richard (1992). Audubon to Xántus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names. Academic Press. ISBN 9780124874237. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
3. "Bird Watcher's Digest". Pardson Corporation. 1993. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014-08-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472905741. Retrieved 2019-10-30.