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He was born in Paris, on the 24th of November 1808.
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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He was educated at the College Bourbon.
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After being educated, he became a teacher at the College Bourbon. In 1832 he published a novel, Sous les tilleuls, characterized by an attractive originality and a delightful freshness of personal sentiment. A second novel, Une heure trop tard, followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works. His Vendredi soir (1835) and Le Chemin le plus court (1836) continued the vein of autobiographical romance with which he had made his first success.
Others were Feu Bressier (1848), and Fort en thbme (1853), which had some influence in stimulating educational reform. In 1839 Alphonse Karr, who was essentially a brilliant journalist, became editor of Le Figaro, to which he had been a constant contributor; and he also started a monthly journal, Les Guêpes, of a keenly satirical tone, a publication which brought him the reputation of a somewhat bitter wit. His epigrams were frequently quoted; e. g. "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing" and, on the proposal to abolish capital punishment, "let the gentlemen who do the murders take the first step". In 1848 he founded Le Journal.
In 1855 he went to live at Nice, where he indulged his predilections for floriculture, and gave his name to more than one new variety. Indeed he practically founded the trade in cut flowers on the Riviera. His reminiscences, Livre de bord, were published in 1879-1880.
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