Michel de La Roche
Michel de La Roche (also Michael) (
Life
While young in France he experienced religious persecution for his Protestant religion. He left for England, where he became almost immediately an
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. It was brought to an end in September 1714; there were other issues in 1717. De La Roche, on his own account, was a friend of
Shortly afterwards de La Roche began to edit the Mémoires Littéraires, which was published at The Hague at intervals till 1724. In 1725 he started New Memoirs of Literature, which ran till December 1727, and finally, in 1730, A Literary Journal, or a continuation of the Memoirs of Literature, which came to an end in 1731.[2]
References
- ^ Dunan-Page, Anne (2006). The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750. Ashgate. p. 166.
- ^ a b c Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 978-90-04-12843-9. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Roche, Michael de la". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.