Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 157-8.  Includes photo(s).
 
Laffay (France) 1829. Parentage unknown. Description... flowers: small, fragrant, double, soft pink...

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 47.  
 
Duchesse de Montebello (1829). Foliage of this rose is greyish-green and the plant grows to some 1.5 metres high. The flowers are fragrant and about 75 mm across. The colour is pale pink, the individual blooms are delightful and it flowers early in the season.

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Duchesse de Montebello (gallica) This is a lovely member of the Gallica group.  The fragrant fully double flowers are a soft, feminine pink produced on a tidy upright plant with good foliage.  Mid 19th Century. (S) 4 x 3’. 

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 333.  
 
Duchesse de Montebello. G. (Laffay, before 1829). Shell-pink, medium, very double, good fragrance, June; growth strong, medium, loosely branched; foliage greyish-green (closer to R. alba than R. gallica).

Magazine  (Nov 1976)  Page(s) 4. trimester, p. 14.  
 
Duchesse de Montebello. C'est un arbuste très harmonieux aux fleurs claires, rose carné. 

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 26.  
 

Tess Allan.  Gallica Roses. 
Duchesse de Montebello is an erect, trim bush and even in its middle-age spread, it retains a comely shape and will grow five feet tall. The newly-opened roses are like shallow goblets, filled with scented, curved, rosy-pink petals. As the flowers mature the petals recurve to form pale-pink rosettes, blending beautifully with the glaucous-green leaves of this excellent shrub.

Website/Catalog  (Nov 1959)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Gallica. Early flowering. Neat leaves and sweet little ball-like blooms of clear blush-pink in big sprays. A charmer of great distinction. 4'x 4'. Recommended.

Book  (1957)  Page(s) 40.  
 
'Duchesse de Montebello'
This is apparently a doubtful name, but as Monsieur Vibert says, with some desperation, 'it is a privilege of beautiful roses to have several names', and this particular rose is certainly among the most beautiful.
It is a strong grower reaching some 4 to 5 feet ; the vigorous canes are bright green, sparsely set with thick and juicy thorns, the leaves are a fresh grey-green.
The petals of the flower are folded as beautifully as those of the Bourbon rose 'Boule de Neige'. The colour of the flower is an exquisite pale coral rose, and as it opens it displays aperfect quartering. The petals gradually expand, recurve and fall in a soft, ivory shower tinged with no more pink than the light from the setting sun allows. The scent is faint but very sweet.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 109.  
 
Duchess de Montebello Palest pink, very double, lower petals hang down and fold over each other; no anthers; pistils 3/8 in., separate. Pedicel glanded, hip nearly smooth. Calyx gland-edged, sharp point, winged. Leaves glaucous, round, thorny. Wood green and few dark thorns. A most charming little flower, scented and altogether mignonne. A difficult Rose to classify: I think more Gallica than Centifolia.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 488.  
 
de Montebello, Duch. (hybrid china) Laffay ca. 1835; violet with ash-gray, medium-size, double