Website/Catalog  (1885)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses.
Exposition de Brie​​​​​​​  brilliant light red, of excellent form, one of the best.

Magazine  (1 Dec 1882)  Page(s) 183.  
 
Plébiscites des Roses en 1882. Roses d'Expositions.- Résultats des votes...
14. Ferdinand des Lesseps, 1869, Eugène Verdier, 60 voix.
14. Maurice Bernardin, 1861, Granger, 60 voix.
14. Exposition de Brie, 1865, Granger, 60 voix.
14. Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1875, Cranston, 60 voix.

Magazine  (1882)  Page(s) 364.  
 
Exposition de Brie, Maurice Bernardin, and Ferdinand de Lesseps have for a long time been regarded as very much alike, but when we see them exhibited by some of our large nursery growers they appear different, and there is certainly a

Book  (1882)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Exposition de Brie... Variété à cultiver pour les Expositions de fleurs. Hybride Perpétuel. Granger. 1865 Rouge vif. Fleur grande. Plante vigoureuse.

Magazine  (13 May 1875)  Page(s) 346.  
 
Synonymes (Teas), 1, Belle de Bordeaux, or Gloire de Bordeaux; 2, Bougère, or Clotilde; 3, Clara Sylvain, or Lady Warrender, or Madame Bureau; 4, Madame Maurin, or Adèle Pradel, or Madame Denis; 5, Madame Bravy, or Alba rosea; 6, Souvenir d'un Ami, or Queen Victoria; 7, Celine Forestier, or Liesis; 8, Le Pactole, or Madame de Challonge; 9, Madame Deslongchamps, or Adelaide Pavie; 10, Narcisse, or Enfant de Lyon; 11, Catherine Guillot, or Michel Bonnet; 12, Louise Odier, or Madame de Stella; 13, Modèle de Perfection, or Celine Gonod; 14, Augusts Mie, or Madame Rival; 15, Le Lion des Combats, or Beaute Francaise; 16, Louise Peyronny, or Laelia; 17, Madame Masson, or Gloire de Chatillon. These, in my opinion, should not have gone out; I will buy either on their own roots—say twenty plants. 18, Maurice Bernardin, or Exposition de Brie, or Ferdinand de Lesseps, or Auguste Neumann (I see no difference here); 19, Sénatéur Favre, or Puebla, or François Fontaine; 20, Sophie Coquerelle, or Julie de St. Aignant; 21, Virginal, or Madame Liabaud; 22, Madame Campbell d'Islay, or Triomphe de Valenciennes. —W. F. Radclyffe.

Magazine  (1 Oct 1874)  Page(s) 294.  
 
Election of Roses....what are considered the best Roses in the two divisions.
South
Ferdinand de Lesseps....22 [votes]
Exposition de Brie..........15 [votes]
Maurice Bernardin..........14 [votes]

North
Exposition de Brie...........6 [votes]
Maurice Bernardin...........6 [votes]
Ferdinand de Lesseps.....5 [votes]

Book  (1874)  Page(s) 212.  
 
The reader, curious in such matters, would, of course, like to have the names of these hypothetically blue roses, and here they are: Captain Ingram, rich purple; Celine Noiret, purple shaded with rose; Duhamel du Monceau, rich red shaded with violet; Elie Morel, rosy lilac; Exposition de Brie, crimson shaded with purple; Felix Genero, rose shaded with violet; Ferdinand de Lesseps, purple shaded violet; Gloire de Ducher, dark purple; James Veitch, deep violet shaded with carmine; La Fontaine, purplish crimson; and lastly, Unique, a lovely blue-tinted lilac Tea rose, which occasionally, when aided by warm, cloudy, damp weather, makes a near approach to the pure blue of the delphinium.

Book  (1873)  Page(s) 233.  
 
A selection of the most beautiful Roses for various purposes...Hybrid perpetuals...
Exposition de Brie - Comte Robert...

Book  (1873)  Page(s) 169.  
 
Rose hybride remontante...
Exposition de Brie - Comte Robert, very large, double, magnificent dark violet-purple. Suitable for pyramids and pillars, with short pruning also for lower groups.

Website/Catalog  (1873)  Page(s) 5.  
 
New Roses. 
Exposition de Brie  magnificent scarlet crimson; very large, well-formed flower; a fine rose.