Jean Baptiste Constant Marie Albert Lacroix (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ lakʁwa] 9 October 1834 - 29 September 1903) was a 19th-century Belgian publisher, printer, and journalist who risked launching some seminal authors like the Goncourt brothers and Émile Zola.
With international success achieved, Albert Lacroix opened branches in Leipzig, Livorno then in Paris, at 13 Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre.
A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven, et Cie then specialised in the publication of the works of French authors exiled in Belgium such as Louis Blanc, Edgar Quinet, Maurice Joly, Proudhon.
From 1863, he became the promoter of the seaside resort of Dinard by acquiring several plots of land above the beach of Saint-Enogat on which he had a hotel and villas built by his namesake: the architect Joseph-Eugène Lacroix.
Also a journalist and writer, Albert Lacroix published several works, including an Illustrated History of France from the Most Remote Origins to the End of the 19th century in 2 volumes in Paris by Ollendorf in 1900.