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. Lesson died of Cholera in 1834.[4]

References

"Family tree of Clémence DUMONT de SAINTE-CROIX". Geneanet. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
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.
"Bird Watcher's Digest". Pardson Corporation. 1993. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014-08-28). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472905741. Retrieved 2019-10-30.

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[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.