Website/Catalog  (1878)  Page(s) 259.  
 
Roses.
Géant des Batailles, Hybrid Perpetual.

Magazine  (1875)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Le blanc s'attache principalement à quelques variétés d'un rouge foncé et surtout aux semis du Géant des batailles, tels que: Lord Raglan, Cardinal Patrizzi, François Arago, Louis XIV, etc., et à quelques sortes d'un blanc rosé Caroline de Sansal, Comtesse de Barbantane, etc. Il épargne dans un massif trois ou quatre pieds, pour aller en frapper d'autres plus loin, sans aucune raison apparente.

Book  (1874)  Page(s) 270.  
 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses, Select List - The following were exhibited by Ellwanger & Barry at the New York State Fair and are considered best out of a full list of over 100:....Geant des Batailles

Magazine  (19 Jul 1864)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Géant des Batailles was raised...near Lyons, by an amateur of the name of Nérard, who in the same way for many years had been saving seed, convinced that he would obtain something good. It was sold to Guillot and by him let out.

Book  (1864)  Page(s) 76.  
 
The Rosomene-Rose (R. hybrida bifera indica - Rose de Rosomène)....Géant des Batailles....

Website/Catalog  (1863)  Page(s) 10.  
 
H.P.  Geant des Batailles bright crimson scarlet, first class old rose

Book  (28 Dec 1861)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Hybrid Perpetuals ...Geant de batailles

Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Hybrid perpetual...
44. Géant des Batailles, bright crimson, full and fine form.

Magazine  (Jan 1860)  Page(s) 40.  
 
History and Cultivation of the Rose.—Mr. Shirley Hibbard recently delivered a most interesting lecture on the Rose. Mr. Hibbard briefly sketched the history of the rose from the earliest times to the peace of 1815, when, he said, the first of the great French rose gardens was laid out by M. Vibert, and the improvement of the rose as a florist's flower commenced in earnest . The great majority of these varieties had been raised in France during the past forty-five years by MM. Vibert, Laffay, Hardy, Desprez, Prevost, Lacharme, Margottin, Guillot, Granger, and a few other professional and amateur growers. The lecturer enumerated the best roses raised by each, and gave a few historical memoranda of such roses as Annie Vibert, Jules Margottin, Geant des Betailles, Great Western, and others, tracing them to their parentage, and indicating, also, the varieties which had proceeded from them. The seedlings of Geant des Betailles, he said, were sufficiently numerous to constitute a rich collection of extraordinary roses, and they included Lord Raglan, General Jacqueminot, Duchess of Norfolk, Eveque de Nimes, Louis Chaix, and others of the crimson section of Hybrid perpetuals.

Website/Catalog  (1860)  
 
Geant des Batailles