Book  (1975)  Page(s) 38-53.  Includes photo(s).
 
L Arthur Wyatt.  Tea-Scented Roses A Survey
Although 'Niphetos' was also used for breeding, of even greater importance was 'Mme Bravy', sent out in 1846. This is an excellent grower, very free with its cupped cream blooms with pink overtones and a fragrance which has been likened to "expensive face-cream". In the days when honesty in the horticultural trade left much to be desired, unscrupulous nurserymen across the Channel found it financially expedient to cash-in on the high reputation of 'Mme Bravy' by re-introducing it at various intervals under no fewer than six names. English growers, caught by this deception, expressed their annoyance in the gardening press in no uncertain terms … and the annoying practice persists.

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 90.  
 
Madame Bravy, or Alba  Rosea, one of the early Teas and a rose that became famous as one parent of the first Hybrid Tea, La France, is to be found in some of our oldest gardens.   One garden at Mangonui, in the far north, has a beautiful bush of this rose, as well as ............  Madame Bravy has cream-white, globular flowers flushed with a delicate pink.  It is a glistening, lovely rose.   The leaves on the plant we phtographed were a shiny, rich green, and very healthy, in spite of being absolutely neglected.   A dwarf-growing rose, Nancy lee, was bred from Madame Bravy.  This had delightful buds, and small, highly-scented blooms in a delicate and lovely shade of satiny-rose

Book  (1965)  
 
p36.  From the second half of the nineteenth century, breeders began to cross the tea roses with the hybrid perpetuals,  and in 1867, from a batch of seedlings raised from a crossing of the hybrid perpetual Mme. Victor Verdier, with the tea rose Madame Bravy,  Monsieur Guillot at Lyons selected one which differed from all the others.    It was named La France by the Horticultural Society of Lyons......

p582.  Mme. Bravy.  Tea rose  4ft. 
 

Book  (1954)  
 
p72.  Mme. Bravy (Guillot, 1848) - A beautiful creamy white, shaded blush, double, fragrant variety of many names and famous as the assumed parent of La France, the first Hybrid Tea.   Originated by Guillot of Pont-de-Chervy, France, in 1844, who named it Danzille, and assigned it to Guillot of Lyons in 1846.   The latter introduced it as Mme. Bravy in 1848, and it was subsequently disseminated by Pernet in 1859 as Mme. Sertot,  and by Lartey, in 1862, as Alba Rosea.   The name Josephine Maltot was also applied. 

p206.  .....Records concerning the parentages of the first Hybrid Tea varieties imply that practically all were derived from seeds of open-pollinated flowers of a Tea Rose variety.   The most popular seed parents were......... and Mme. Bravy (Alba Rosea).... as these were all prolific seed producers. 

p212.   ......Modern authorities believe that Mme. Bravy,  a creamy white Tea Rose,  and Mme. Victor Verdier,  a light crimson Hybrid perpetual, are the parents (of La France).    The basis for this assumption is unknown, as Guillot stated that it appeared in a bed of seedlings whose parentage was unknown and he therefore could not trace its origin.   Socrates (Robert & Moreau, 1858)) rather than Mme. Bravy,  may well have been a parent, as it is a prolific seed producer.............
 

Article (misc)  (4 Mar 1950)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Adam (or 'President')... salmon-pink... the first of the so-called tea rose family... ['Adam'] and 'Mme. Bravy' ('Alba Rosea' or 'Mme. Sertot') and Mme. St. Joseph' were primarily greenhouse roses but were used extensively in the breeding of the early hybrid teas which were the result of crosses between this class [Tea Roses] and the hybrid perpetuals.

Book  (1945)  Page(s) 67.  
 
The first Hybrid Tea Rose was La France, and it is still a fragrant favourite in many gardens. It was raised by Guillot in 1867, and its parents were the grand old Hybrid Perpetual Madame Victor Verdier and the aristocratic Tea Rose Madame Bravy.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 104.  
 
Bravy, Mme. (tea) Guillot 1846; yellowish white, center pink, medium to large, double, fine form, globular to flat cup form, opens, fragrance 7/10, floriferous, continuous bloom, growth 4/10; = [similar to] Danzile; Alba rosea; Mme. Sertot; Josephine Malton

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 192.  
 
Danzille (tea) Guillot 1848; white-pink; = Mme. Bravy.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 660.  
 
de Sertot (Mme. (tea) Pernet 1859; white-pink = Mme. Bravy; Alba rosea.

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Tea Roses. Mme Bravy. White, center light pink, very floriferous, Forcing rose