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.