1710–1742)[1] was a French Huguenot refugee and author in England, where he was known as an editor of early literary periodicals, monthly or quarterly.
[3] De La Roche settled in London and obtained employment from booksellers, mainly devoting himself to literary criticism.
Imitating some similar ventures that had been made in Holland, he began in 1710 to issue a periodical, Memoirs of Literature.
Early in 1717 he arranged to edit a new periodical, Bibliothèque Angloise, ou Histoire littéraire de la Grande Bretagne, in French and published at Amsterdam; he was still living for the most part in London.
[2] Shortly afterwards de La Roche began to edit the Mémoires Littéraires, which was published at The Hague at intervals till 1724.