Antoine Fortuné Marion
1846–1900
French naturalist. Interested in geology, zoology, and botany. PhD, 1870. A schoolfriend of the writer Émile Zola and the artist Paul Cézanne in Aix en Provence. Established a marine laboratory with financial assistance from the city of Marseilles, 1878–87. Director of the Marseilles natural history museum, 1880. Collaborated with Gaston de Saporta on the publication of a work on the evolution of plants.
Sources
Danchev 2012, pp. 95–8
DSB
Bibliography
Danchev, Alex. 2012. Cézanne: a life. London: Profile Books.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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