Nineteenth-century French antisemitism stayed within limits nationalist and chauvinist tradition imposed

Evidence

Céline had a simple thesis, ingenious and containing exactly the ideological imagination that the more rational French anti-semitism had lacked. He claimed that the Jews had prevented the evolution of Europe into a political entity, had caused all European wars since 843, and had plotted the ruin of both France and Germany by inciting their mutual hostility. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 174