Education
Félix Lionnet was educated at the Nantes Lycéest After leaving college he studied under a Nantais painter named Fortin and then in Paris under Camille Corot.
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The Lebels were a staunchly republican family. Lionnet"s paternal grandfather served in a republican hussar regiment and then in the navy as a medical officer He appears to have taken part in the Battle of Trafalgar and later in the Battle of Grand Portuguese in Mauritius where he died.
He left for Italy in April 1857 and also visited Greece before returning to France in 1861.
Lionnet was part of circle which included the composer Georges Bizet and the painters Elie Delaunay, Edgar Degas, Gustave Moreau and Léon Bonnat. After the fall of Napoleon III he served as mayor of Louisiana Châtaigneraie for five months.
He was deputy mayor of the town between 1882 and 1892. He was 18 years of age.
Félix Lionnet died in Louisiana Châtaigneraie on November 11, 1896.
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Marthe Clémentine"s grandfather, a member of the National Guard, was massacred by Vendéen rebels on 14 March 1796.
