Marie Clémence Lesson

Marie Clémence Lesson (March 2 – 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. 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. 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. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
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