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2 unusual facts about LaRoche


Laroche-Valmont

In the early 1980s, he created several magazines such as Hit magazine, Stéphanie, Super Géant, Privé and books on Claude François, Mesrine, Nostradamus and Coluche.

Matthew G. Carter

Professionally, Carter also held positions as the assistant director of the YMCA publishing house, based in New York City, and the Department of Community Affairs for LaRoche.


Andy LaRoche

LaRoche played for Team USA during the off-season in the 2007 Baseball World Cup.

Gare de Bercy

It is also the Paris terminus for medium-distance domestic services to Avallon via Laroche-Migennes, Sens, and Auxerre.

Independent and non-affiliated candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Wilfrid Laroche is a retired contractor who also served as mayor of Sainte-Sabine, Quebec in the Montérégie for fourteen years.

Jade Laroche

In 2010 Laroche starred in the music video of the song "Other City" by Tom Snare.

Susan Orlean

The book formed the basis of Charlie Kaufman's script for the Spike Jonze film Adaptation. Orlean (portrayed by Meryl Streep in an Oscar-nominated role) was, in effect, made into a fictional character; the movie portrayed her as becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug production operation, in which orchids were processed into a fictional psychoactive substance.

The Orchid Thief

Plant dealer Laroche was determined to find and clone the rare Ghost Orchid for profit.

William Theilheimer

Later volumes were sponsored by a number of American chemical and pharmaceutical firms, most notably Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc., who provided library facilities at their site in Nutley, New Jersey from 1948 up to (and after) Theilheimer's retirement in 1981.


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