Abbé ''Abbé'' (from Latin ''abbas'', in turn from Greek , ''abbas'', from Aramaic ''abba'', a title of honour, literally meaning "the father, my father", emphatic state of ''abh'', "father") is the French word for an abbot. It is the title for lowe ...

Claude-Joseph Drioux (17 February 1820 – 13 May 1898) was a French priest, popular educator, cartographer, geographer, historian, and religious writer. Drioux was born 17 February 1820 at Bourdons,

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, ''vicaire général'', finally ''chanoine''. Drioux was the "star author" of the publishers Belin. The 51 school textbooks of the Abbé Drioux had a great vogue in France for over thirty years and some ran to 30 editions, "they almost had a monopoly on the education of children of both sexes in the free institutions both primary and secondary schools of our country" The total number of books sold exceeded one million. This author derived a steady income from Belin allowing him to purchase the Chateau de Lanty

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, France, former property of the Marquise de Coligny, where he died 13 May 1898. As a religious writer and popular educator Drioux was influential not only on schoolchildren but adults in bringing the findings of German scholars to the popular French audience. His pictorial Bible (1864) and history of Rome (1876) contain many interpretations evidently sourced from contemporary German sources, but also renaissance sources such as

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. He perhaps independently identified the "five brothers" as the sons of

Annas Annas (also Ananus or Ananias;Goodman, Martin, "Rome & Jerusalem", Penguin Books, p.12 (2007) , ; grc-x-koine, Ἅννας, ; 23/22 BC – death date unknown, probably around AD 40) was appointed by the Roman legate Quirinius as the first High ...

and the "rich man" as

Caiaphas Joseph ben Caiaphas (; c. 14 BC – c. 46 AD), known simply as Caiaphas (; grc-x-koine, Καϊάφας, Kaïáphas ) in the New Testament, was the Jewish high priest who, according to the gospels, organized a plot to kill Jesus. He famously p ...

in the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16. As a geographer Drioux worked primarily with cartographer Charles Leroy. As an editor of Latin theological works he worked with a series of co-editors.

Works

* 1859 ''Nouvel Atlas de Géographie Moderne'' (with Charles Leroy) * 1864 ''La Bible populaire : histoire illustrée de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament''. Paris, Hachette, 1864-1865. 2 vol. * 1876 ''Cours abrégé d'histoire romaine: depuis la foundation de Rome jusqu'à l'invasion des Arabes''. * 1867 ''Atlas Universel et Classique de Géographie'' (with Charles Leroy) * 1878 ''Cosmographie ou Tableau des Systèmes du Monde'' (with Charles Leroy) * 1872 ''La Sainte Bible en latin et en français'' avec les commentaires de Ménochius et des notes historiques et théologiques, 8 vols. Paris, Berche et Tralin Paris (reissued 1892 - this parallel text of the Vulgate and the French ''paraphrase'' translation by R.P. De Carrières contained both the comments of Menochius and those of Drioux on the French.) * 1880 ''

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

Summa Theologica'' (one of three translator-editors) * 1881 ''Nouvel Atlas Universel et Classique de Géographie''Goffart, Walter A. ''Historical atlases: the first three hundred years, 1570-1870''. 2003 509

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drioux, Abbe Claude-Joseph 1820 births 1898 deaths 19th-century French cartographers 19th-century French Roman Catholic priests French male non-fiction writers 19th-century French historians 19th-century French male writers