Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 400.  
 
Fig. 1: [Closest relation to 'Fanny Bias'. Next kin: Grand Cramoisie de Vibert. Related to the 'Versicolor'-cluster.]

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Duc de Bordeaux Gallica. Vibert, 1820. The author cites information from different sources... Violet... Lilac pink... Crimson purple... Crimson red...

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 307.  
 
Duc de Bordeaux Gallica. Vibert. Included in the collection of the Luxembourg Garden around 1852-1860.

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 145-146.  
 
Duc de Bordeaux. Vibert, 1820. Habit: upright shrub; quite strong branches; no ptrickles, very small bristles. Foliage: light; abundant; elliptical leaflets. Bloom: clusters of 2 or 3; medium size, double, quartered; small central eye. Colour: pale pink, especially on the edges....Vibert describes 'Duc de Bordeaux' as "lilac-pink" (1820), Desportes as "crimson-purple" (1828) and Prévost as "light lilac-pink" (1829). He completes his description thus: "Shrub with hooked prickles; full, large, regular, light and uniform lilac-pink". The specimen in the collection of Sangerhausen, clearly striped, does not correspond to this description; that in the collection of L'Haÿ, only imperfectly. One can question the authenticity of the current specimens of this variety.

Article (newsletter)  (1996)  Page(s) 46.  
 
In the Rosetum Gallicum (1828), Desportes printed a list of all roses known at that period in France. Out of 2562 varieties listed, 1213 are Gallicas. Of these, Desportes gives no information about 332 of them, except their names. Of the rest 316 came from the Low Countries. The remaining 565 were bred by French raisers, of whom two stand head and shoulders above the rest: Vibert (97 varieties) and Miellez (212 varieties). These two bred over half the Gallicas produced during the Restoration. About a dozen of Vibert's Gallicas produced before 1828 are still with us. This is one of them.

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 55.  
 
Duc de Bordeaux Vibert, France 1820.  (Possible originally from van Eeden, Holland, or earlier). Large double blossoms of uniform lilac rose color. (1.4j 

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 145.  
 
Duc de Bordeaux Gallica, rosy lilac, 1820, Vibert. Description.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 93.  
 
de Bordeaux, Duc (Provins) Vibert 1820; crimson-purple or light lilac-pink, outer petals white-pink, large, double, regular, ranunculus-form, Identical with the centifolia by Laffay?

Magazine  (Jun 1934)  Page(s) 73.  
 
Le Jardin Botanique du Parc de la Tête d'Or possède, en outre des collections botaniques et médicinales d'environ 6.000 plantes....
Parmi les roses PROVINS (environ 150 variétés), on peut citer les plus anciennes ; Adèle Courtoise 1816, Baronne  de Stahel 1820, Duc de Bordeaux 1820, Fatine 1820, Assemblage de Beauté 1823, Phoebus 1837, Dona Sol 1842, Turenne 1842, Tricolore de Flandre 1846, Georges Vibert 1853, Alcine 1861, Belle des Jardins 1872, etc.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 208.  
 
Rosa gallica.
Duc de Bordeaux, Blumen groß und voll, lilarosa.

Translation: Rosa gallica.
Duc de Bordeaux, the large, full blooms are lilac-pink.