Albert Jean Michel de Rocca (1788 – 31 January 1818) was a French lieutenant during the Napoleonic Wars. He was also the second husband of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. He was actually a Swiss national, born in Geneva in 1788. He served in the French army during the Peninsular war and was seriously injured. Back in Geneva, he had an affair with Germaine de Staël, who, exiled from Paris by Napoleon, lived in her castle at near-by Coppet. The lady bore a son on 7 April 1812, whom his father legitimated as Louis-Alphonse Rocca. They separated when Madame de Staël started on a European tour, to reach London through Vienna, Moscow, St.Petersburg and Stockholm. Later they married and moved together to Paris after Waterloo and Napoleon's second abdication. Germaine de Staël suffered a seizure on