Marie Clémence Lesson (March 2 1800 – August 4 1834) was an illustrator and the second wife of French ornithologist

René Lesson René-Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Biography Lesson was born at Rochefort, and entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort at the age of sixteen. He ...

, who she married in 1827. She trained as a natural history artist in Paris 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 Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (27 April 1758 – 8 January 1830) was a French zoologist. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.Stresemann, p. 117 Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Ja ...

. Lesson died of Cholera in 1834.

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