Marie Clémence Lesson Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Family tree of Clémence DUMONT de SAINTE-CROIX . Geneanet . en . 2020-05-22.
2. Book: Audubon to Xántus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names . Mearns . Barbara . Barbara Mearns . Mearns . Richard . 1992 . Academic Press . 9780124874237. en . 2020-05-22.
3. Web site: Bird Watcher's Digest . 1993 . Pardson Corporation . en . 2020-05-22.
4. Book: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds . Beolens . Bo . Watkins . Michael . 2014-08-28 . Bloomsbury Publishing . en . 2019-10-30 . Grayson . Michael. 9781472905741 .