What is Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr?
[[Image:Alphonse Karr.jpg|right|thumb|Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr]] '''Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr''' (24 November 1808 &ndash; 29 September 1890) was a [[French people|French]] critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his niece [[Carme Karr]] was a writer, journalist and [[suffragist]] in [[La Roche-Mabile]]. In 1839 Alphonse Karr became editor of ''[[Le Figaro]]''. Karr was born in [[Paris]] and died in [[Saint-Raphael, Var]]. The [[bamboo]] species ''Bambusa multiplex Alphonse Karr'' was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.beautiful-tropical-gardens.com/bambusa-multiplex-alphonse-karr.html|title=Bambusa multiplex Alphonse Karr|website=www.beautiful-tropical-gardens.com}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{wikiquote-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse}} [[Category:1808 births]] [[Category:1890 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from stroke]] [[Category:French critics]] [[Category:French journalists]] [[Category:Writers from Paris]] {{bio-stub}}