The son of Germaine de Staël and Albert Jean-Michel Rocca. In 1820 Maria Edgeworth described him as “an odd, cold, prudent, old-man sort of a child.”

REFERENCES TO Louis Alphonse Rocca:

Sydney Smith to Catharine Amelia Smith, 23 April 1826 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)