Ducreux, Gabriel Marie

Ducreux, Gabriel Marie a French historian, dean at Auxerre and afterwards at Orleans, was born at the latter place, June 27, 1743, and died there August 24, 1790. He is known as the author of Les Siecles Chretiens (Paris, 1775, 9 volumes; German translation by Fischer, Vienna and Landshut, 1781-90): — Pensees et Reflexions (Paris, 1765, 2 volumes). See Hefele, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v, (B.P.)