About Marie Clémence Lesson
Lived 1800 – 1834 (aged 34). Marie Clémence Lesson was a French artist and scientific illustrator.
Marie Clémence Lesson (; March 2 1800 – August 4 1834) was an illustrator and the second wife of French ornithologist René Lesson, whom 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. Lesson died of Cholera in 1834.
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Who was Marie Clémence Lesson?
French scientific illustrator
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Marie Clémence Lesson was born on 2 March 1800 in Paris.
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Marie Clémence Lesson died on 4 August 1834 in Rochefort.
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Marie Clémence Lesson was an artist and scientific illustrator.
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Marie Clémence Lesson was French.
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