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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

1808 - 1890

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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is the 1,930th most popular writer (down from 1,745th in 2019), the 2,210th most popular biography from France (down from 2,002nd in 2019) and the 271st most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ranks 1,930 out of 7,302Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Gitta Sereny, John Banville, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Petr Ginz, and Daṇḍin. After him are Nelson Algren, Mary Norton, Chuck Palahniuk, Alexander Polyhistor, Don Juan Manuel, and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ranks 30Before him are Solomon Northup, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Mindon Min, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Henry Cole. After him are Eugénie de Beauharnais, Urbano Rattazzi, Venancio Flores, Johann Benedict Listing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, and John Scott Russell. Among people deceased in 1890, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ranks 30Before him are Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Spotted Elk, Louis Le Prince, Christopher Latham Sholes, William Gull, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot. After him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Ivan Mažuranić, Camilo Castelo Branco, Vasile Alecsandri, Ignaz von Döllinger, and Johann Voldemar Jannsen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ranks 2,210 out of 6,770Before him are Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Marie Harel (1761), Pierre Bérégovoy (1925), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), Jacques Doillon (1944), and Félix Tisserand (1845). After him are André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Henri Duparc (1848), Yves Rocher (1930), Jean Goujon (1510), and Lothair II of Italy (1000).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ranks 271Before him are Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), Tristan Corbière (1845), Émile Augier (1820), Hincmar (806), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), and Christian Jacq (1947). After him are Eustache Deschamps (1346), Jean Paulhan (1884), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), Charles de Brosses (1709), Fred Vargas (1957), and Avitus of Vienne (450).