DROZ, JOSEPH French writer on ethics and political science, was born at Be sancon, of a legal family. He gained the Montyon prize in 1823 by his work De la philosophie morale ou des differents sys temes sur la science de la vie. The main doctrine inculcated in this treatise is that society will never be in a proper state till men have been educated to think of their duties and not of their rights. It was followed in 1825 by Application de la morale a la philosophie et a la politique, and in 1829 by Economie politique, on principes de la science des richesses, which was edited by Michel Chevalier in 1854. His greatest work was a Histoire du regne de Louis XVI (3 vols., 1839-42). As he advanced in life Droz became more religious, and his last work was Pensees du Christianisme (1842). He had been admitted to membership in the Academy some time during See Guizot, Discours academiques; Montalembert, "Discours de reception," in Mimoires de l'Academie francaise; Causeries du lundi, t. iii. ; Michel Chevalier, Notice prefixed to the Economie politique.