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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