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'Madame Bravy' rose References
Book  (23 Jun 1987)  Page(s) 22.  
 
‘Madame Bravy’ (‘Danzille’,  ‘Alba Rosea’,  ‘Mme. de Serfot’, (sic)  ‘Mme. Denis’,  ‘Josephine Meltot’) (1846).   This was a famous Tea bred by Guillot with globular flowers in which the outer petals were somewhat short and the inner petals short and folded.   The colour is creamy white delicately blushed with rosy pink and has that glistening effect so beautiful too in ‘Duchesse de Brabant’.   This rose was also famous as a parent of the first Hybrid Tea ‘La France’
Book  (1987)  Page(s) 98.  
 
 Notable triploids include ‘Lady Hillingdon’ ‘Diamond Jubilee’,  and amazingly ‘La France, the first of the hybrid teas (now called large flowered roses) from which very few modern roses are descended.    The parentage of ‘La France’ is stated to be ‘Mme. Victor Verdier’(Hyrbid Perpetual, ploidy not available),  ‘Mme Bravy’ (Tea rose, ploidy not available).    Guillot, its raiser, believed it to be a seedling of ‘Mme. Falcot’ (**) (Tea rose, ploidy not available).  It is strange that ‘La France’ ever came into existence but it is even more strange that it produced any fertile seed.  
 
Book  (1986)  Page(s) 96.  
 
Mme. Bravy (1846).  Beauty is present in all the old teas and this is one of the finest.   There are many roses with these shadings but this one stands out.   Creamy white with pink tints, double and very fragrant
Book  (1986)  
 
p176.  .....The old climbing tea rose ‘Marechal Niel’ has the scent of raspberries and so has ‘Madame Bravy’ one of the progenitors of the first hybrid tea (large-flowered) roses. 

p191.  ‘Madame Bravy’ is famous for having been one of the assumed parents of ‘La France’,  officially the first of the large-flowered roses, formerly known as the hybrid teas.   It was first raised by the Guillot nursery of Pont-de-Chervy about 18 miles (29 km) from Lyon, France in 1844, assigned (under the name ‘Danzille’) to another Guillot nursery in Lyon in 1846 and introduced as ‘Madame Bravy’ two years later.   The flowers are cream, flushed or streaked with carmine.  
 
Book  (1985)  Page(s) 12-13.  
 
Mme Bravy came from a Monsieur Guillot of Pont-de-Chéruy. He had named it 'Danzille', and he assigned it to Guillot of Lyon in 1846... The name was changed and the rose was introduced as 'Mme Bravy' in 1848... a creamy white rose, with a blush of pink at the centre...
Book  (1984)  Page(s) 72.  
 
Mme. Bravy.  1846.  Creamy-white flushed pink.
 
Book  (1983)  Page(s) 104.  
 
(Excellent photo of) 'Snowflake' (1886)  ‘Marie Lambert’.  This rose is reputed to be a sport from the well-known old Tea rose ‘Mme. Bravy’.  Like its parent, it is double and fragrant, but pure white. 
 
Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 25.  
 

Mme. Bravy (Tea) Double, creamy white with pink shadings having a strong, Tea fragrance. 1846. (R) 3 x 3’.

Book  (1980)  Page(s) 70.  
 
.......La France was raised by Guillot in France - though not, it would seem, from a deliberate cross, even though the Hybrid Perpetual ‘Mme. Victor Verdier’ and the Tea Rose ‘Mme. Bravy’ are often quoted as its parents.    Even the raiser did not agree that this was certain.....
 
Book  (1978)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Mme. Bravy.  A famous Tea, from Guillot about 1846.   Its colour was so familiar that Foster-Melliar wrote twenty-one lines about ‘Mme. Bravy’ without disclosing it.  It was creamy white, warmly shaded blush.   The flowers are globular, not very regular in form, having short, folded centre petals, and rather short outer petals.   It was named ‘Danzille’ by the Guillot who raised it.  ‘Mme Bravy’ by the Guillot who introduced it,  and ‘Mme de Sertot’,  ‘Alba Rosea’.  ‘Mme. Denis’ and ‘Joséphine Maltot’ by various French growers, much to the annoyance of other people by the time they had bought the same new rose five or six times.   Its real claim to fame, not perfectly proved, is to have been one of the parents of the first Hybrid Tea, ‘La France’.
 
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