Newsletter  (Nov 2012)  Page(s) 6.  
 
[From "Bread, Equality, and Roses", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 2-7]
'Comte de Paris' ....I have read of this rose many a time, viewed plates and photos of it, and finally found it had planted itself within the hollow of my chest. The current Combined Rose List does not name it. Yet one thin thread of hope is tied to the Loubert nursery in France, for though the Loubert website catalogue does not list it, the HelpMeFind website claims that Loubert is the only nursery worldwide to sell it. The color of the rose itself is a red with nuances: a deep red with purple shadings, a poppy red with purple highlights, or a bright red lit with crimson. The online photos at HelpMeFind.com show the color range. The underside of the reflexed petals reveal a slightly paler red. Its dark green leaflets appear “irregularly serrated and elliptical,” according to the Journal des Roses of December 1886. It affirms that the rose is or was “very certainly one of the most beautiful creations that [the Leveque] establishment has given to the lovers of the queen of flowers.”

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 157.  
 
Comte de Paris Hybrid Perpetual. Lévêque 1886. The author cites information from different sources... poppy red nuanced and illuminated bright purple...

Website/Catalog  (1970)  Page(s) 28.  
 
location II/14, Comte de Paris (Lévêque 1886), HP, purple-red, large, double, moderate fragrance, tall

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 541.  
 
Paris, Comte de (HP= Lévêque 1886; deep red, shaded vivid purple and brown, lightened very vivid crimson, large, double, fine form, fragrance 5/10, mediocre, floriferous, light green branches, growth 8/10. Sangerhausen

Website/Catalog  (1926)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Hybrides Remontants...Comte de Paris.- Coloris rouge intense.

[no longer listed in the 1929 catalogue]

Booklet  (1904)  Page(s) 20.  
 
Comte de Paris (Leveque 1886) deep crimson, shaded and tinged with purple and bright red. Vig. Exh. Gdn. 

Book  (1902)  
 
Hybrides Remontants. Groupe E. — Général Jacqueminot
Les rosiers formant ce groupe, le plus important de tous, sont des arbustes de végétation vigoureuse, très florifères et portant beaucoup à fruit.
Rameaux allongés, généralement gris; aiguillons nombreux, crochus; feuillage vert foncé, folioles ovales; floraison le plus souvent en corymbe; fleur forme en coupe ou chiffonnée, frisée, quelquefois globuleuse, coloris du rouge clair au pourpre noirâtre; fruits abondants, de forme plutôt arrondie.
3780. Comte de Paris... (Lévêque 1886)... rouge nuancé.

Booklet  (1899)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Hybrid Perpetuals.
Comte de Paris Leveque 1886. S. G.  Crimson, tinted with red, reflexed, vigorous. 

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Comte de Paris, HR, Lévêque, 1886, rouge nuancé

Book  (1894)  Page(s) 224.  
 
Hybrid Perpetuals
Comte de Paris (Leveque, 1886). — A large full red Rose, of ordinary growth and habits, with flowers of "reflexed" shape.