Alphonse Toussenel

Alphonse Toussenel (March 17th 1803 with Montreuil-Bellay - April 30th 1885 with Paris) is a French writer and journalist.

Utopian Socialist and disciple of Fourier, it was also anglophobe and anti-semite. He was editor association of the newspaper Peace . Its studies of Natural history were used to him to convey its political ideas.

Quotations

“the bear symbolizes the systematic spirit of retrogradation and incorrigible anarchy which prohibits leniency. The bear is indeed the alive incarnation of the hostility to progress and the protest armed with the alleged rights of the animal to the authority of the man. ” the Spirit of the animals.
“All the times that it is a question of making a bad blow, the bad animal is there. Manners of the Fox, curious to study, are the exact painting of those of a crowd of civilized of bottom stages, and in particular of the pickpocket, the swindler, the swindler, of outputting félon. If the animals never hold shop, I bet all that one will want that it is a Fox which will be first tradesman. ” the Spirit of the animals.

Principal works

Jews, kings of the time: history of financial feudality (1847)
the Spirit of the animals. French hunting and zoology passion (1847) - Exemplary numerical consultable on Gallica.
Work and laziness, democratic program (1849)
the Spirit of the animals. The world of the birds, passion ornithology (1853-55)
Tristia, history of miseries and the plagues of the hunting of France (1863)

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