Re rose discoverer Pissard; his name was Ernest François Pissard. He was born January 30 1850 at Sallanche, Haute Savoie, and died early in 1934 at Tallence, Gironde.
(bio in A Jardinagem em Portugal, in O Instituto [Coimbra] 1907; notices in Gardeners' Chronicle and Revue Horticole, April 1934)