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Claude-Joseph Drioux (17 February 1820 – 13 May 1898) was a French priest, popular educator,

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, geographer, historian, and religious writer. Drioux was born 17 February 1820 at Bourdons,

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, and finally a canon. Drioux was the "star author" of the publishers Belin. His 51 school textbooks enjoyed 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-sur-Aube, Haute-Marne,

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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 among adults as well as schoolchildren, 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 Menochius. Perhaps independently, he identified the "five brothers" as the sons of Annas and the "rich man" as

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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 ''

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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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