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.

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