Alphonse Toussenel is a French writer and journalist, socialist and anti-Semite. He had a certain influence on Édouard Drumont, who pays tribute to him in his book "La France juive", as well as on the Boulangists, the Marquis de Morès, and Pierre Biétry. Historian Jean-Pierre Rioux considers that this work is not unrelated to the anti-Semitic dimension that some have attributed to the political myth of the Two Hundred Families. This anti-Semitic dimension was taken up decades later by Édouard Drumont.