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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.
Life.
Karr was born in Paris, and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, "Sous les Tilleuls" (1832), were autobiographical romances. A second novel, "Une heure trop tard", followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works.
Le Villi
Le Villi ("The Willis" or "The Fairies") is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story "Les Willis" by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet "Giselle". The opera, in its original one-act version, was first performed at the Teatro Dal Verme