Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Jean -Baptiste Alphonse Karr (* November 24, 1808 in Paris, † September 29, 1890 in Saint- Raphaël ) was a French journalist, writer and satirist.

Life and work

Karr's first novel, " Sous les Tileuls " ( " Unter den Linden" ) appeared in 1832. Karr was one of the first who made the coast of Normandy popular. Particularly impressed it had him Etretat, where his novel " Le chemin le plus court" ( "The shortest way ," 1837) plays.

Alphonse Karr founded the satirical magazine " Les Guêpes " ("The Wasps " ), published in 1839-1876. As a fierce opponent of Napoleon III. he went to the coup of 1851 according to Nice from exile. His work Les Willis (1856 ) was the template for Le Villi, Puccini's first opera. 1882 Karr, the first incumbent president, founded by Marie -Françoise Bernard and Helena, Comtesse de Noailles Association Société Française contre la vivisection, which was active against animal testing.

His last years were spent Alphonse Karr in Saint- Raphael on the Cote d' Azur, where he devoted himself to intensive horticulture and cultivation of flowers. He is credited therefore the justification of the Riviera. At the age of almost 82 years, he died there on September 29, 1890 In his honor, two plants were posthumously named after him. Room bamboo " bamboo multiplex Alphonse Karr " and a pear.

Works

• Fa dièzes. Novel, Ledoux, Paris 1834
• Midi at 14 hours, long Lévy, Paris 1842
• Une heure trop tard, Gosselin, Paris 1849
• Voyage auteur de mon jardin, Slatkine, Paris 1979 ( Repr ed d Paris 1851)
• Le chemin le plus court, Didier, Paris 1854
• Les Willis, 1856
• Agathe et Cécile. Lévy, Paris 1867
• Sous les tilleuls, Lévy, Paris 1869
• A bas les masques, Lévy, Paris 1883
• Le credo du jardinier, Lévy, Paris 1890
• Dieu et diable, Calmann Lévy, Paris 1898