biography
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Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1808–90)
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| biography:
| Humorist, born in Paris, France. He published pamphlets in the review Les Guèpes (1839–46), then in Les Nouvelles Guèpes (1853–5). His first novel is his most famous, Sous les Tilleuls (1832), then appeared Voyage autour de mon jardin (1845), and Les Soirées de Sainte Adresse (1853). He retired, under Napoléon III, to the S of France to involve himself in horticulture. |
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