De Lens family

The de Lens family is a bourgeois family of Brussels of which a branch settled in Paris in the century of Louis XIV.

Members

 * Jean de Lens [fr] (1616-1689), goldsmith of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.
 * Jacques de Lens [fr] (1786-1846), doctor, founding member of the Academy of Medicine.

Family of the same name from Hainaut

 * Anne de Lens, wife of Adrien de Dion, had her heart embalmed and deposited in a leaden reliquary in the Church of St. Jacques of Douai in 1580, where it was discovered during archaeological excavations in 2007.

Authority
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Famille de Lens; see its history for attribution.