Abbé Claude-Joseph Drioux (17 February 1820 – 13 May 1898) was a French priest, popular educator, cartographer, geographer, historian, and religious writer.
[1] He was first priest, then professor at the seminary of Langres, vicar general, and finally a canon.
[2] 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".
Perhaps independently, he identified the "five brothers" as the sons of Annas and the "rich man" as Caiaphas in the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16.
[citation needed] As a geographer, Drioux worked primarily with cartographer Charles Leroy.