Marie Clémence Lesson

{{Short description|French illustrator}}

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Marie Clémence Lesson (March 2 1800 – August 4 1834){{Cite web |title=Family tree of Clémence DUMONT de SAINTE-CROIX |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/barbierd?lang=en&n=dumont+de+sainte+croix&oc=0&p=clemence |website=Geneanet |language=en |access-date=2020-05-22}} was an illustrator and the second wife of French ornithologist René Lesson, who she married in 1827.{{Cite book |title=Audubon to Xántus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCogAQAAIAAJ&q=Marie+Cl%25C3%25A9mence+Lesson |last1=Mearns |first1=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Mearns |last2=Mearns |first2=Richard |date=1992 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn = 9780124874237|language=en |access-date=2020-05-22}} She trained as a natural history artist in Paris{{Cite web |title=Bird Watcher's Digest |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBYiAQAAMAAJ&q=Marie+Cl%25C3%25A9mence+Lesson |date=1993 |publisher=Pardson Corporation |language=en |access-date=2020-05-22}} 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.{{cn|date=May 2020}} Lesson died of Cholera in 1834.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=En4wBAAAQBAJ&q=Marie%2520Cl%25C3%25A9mence%2520Lesson&pg=PT272 |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |date=2014-08-28 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |language=en |access-date=2019-10-30 |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael|isbn=9781472905741 }}