Book  (19 Apr 2000)  Page(s) 189.  
 
'GLOIRE DE FRANCE', HGal, lp; flowers pale pink, dbl., low growth; Bizard, 1828

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 22.  
 
Gloire de France Gallica. Description.

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 150.  Includes photo(s).
 
GLOIRE DE FRANCE Bizard, 1828. Habit: Upright shrub, attaining 1,60 m height and 1,20 m width. Foliage: light green, abundant; elliptical leaflets. Bloom: floriferous; solitary, most often in 2 or 3; large, very double, in irregular quarters. Colour: veined pink, slightly paler on the periphery. Fragrance; Moderate...."Gloire de France" was obtained by an amateur from Angers named Bizard, who was counsellor at the Royal Court of Angers. ...A report ...in 1835-1837, indicates that it bloomed for the first time in 1828 and gives the following description: "Very vigorous shrub; ..sepals are foliaceous and longer than the receptacle. Very large bloom (4 in..), flattened at the top or slightly concave; with very large outer petals, lilac-red, envelopping those at the centre, which are carmine-red, folded and twisted." Judging by the old catalogues, the colour of this variety is very variable: if it is "pale pink" for Vibert, it is "lilac-pink" for lacharme and Laffay, "light pink" for Prévost, "tender pink" for Guillot and even "deep wine-pink" for Duval.
The Anglo-Saxons currently set"Gloire des France" as a synonym of "Fanny Bias". This is an error. Vibert, in his catalogue of 1836, presents these two roses separately...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 143.  
 
Pre-1819. Description and vital statistics. Very double, medium-sized flowers of pale pink with deeper centres...

Book  (Sep 1996)  Page(s) 166.  
 
Gloire de France can be pegged

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 98.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Gloire de France Gallica 1828. [The author had grown this rose for many years before being sent it under the name of 'Fanny Bias'...] The old French descriptions of either name would apply. Description... a warm lilac-rose, the centre retaining its tone while the circumference rapidly fades to lilac-white...

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 20.  
 
Gloire de France Prior to 1819. Description... beautifully shaped flowers; mauve at the centre, fading to lilac at the edges,reflexing almost to a ball...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 209.  
 
Gloire de France Gallica, pale pink, ('Fanny Bias'); Cultivated 1819...

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 47.  Includes photo(s).
 
Gloire de France ('Fanny Bias') Gallica. Parentage: unknown. Origin unknown, but before 1819. Description and cultivation... The fully double flowers are medium-sized, very prolific, and fading from lilac-rose to pale pink...