Newsletter  (Feb 2015)  Page(s) 4-5.  Includes photo(s).
 
Another obscure rose in Armstrong Park is the tea ‘Mme Achille Fould’. Bred by Louis Leveque in 1903, it is a large rose, soft yellow shaded with carmine—or is it carmine shaded with yellow? —perhaps with a wash of copper. While it is possible the rose was named for the spouse of a French minister of finance (1800-1868), it is not probable, since nearly all —if not all—Nabonnand roses (as this one is also) were named for contemporaries. More likely the rose was named for a minor French painter who used the male pseudonym Georges AchilleFould (1865-1951). Her mother had married the Rumanian Prince Stribey, who adopted the painter and her sister. Having inherited Castle Becon and its surrounding park, the sisters donated it to the city to become the Museum Roybet Fould. Fould, who began exhibiting in 1884, is best known for her paintings Rosa Bonheur in Her Studio and Madame Satan. One of her paintings hangs today in the Pfister Hotel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 274.  
 
Fould, Mme. Achille (tea) Lévêque 1903; yellow with vivid carmine-pink and coppery pink, shaded salmon, sometimes salmony light pink or carmine-pink with yellow reflexes, very large, double, globular, fragrance 6/10, floriferous, growth 7/10, climbing, 2 m. Sangerhausen

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 95.  
 
6.079. Madame Achille Fould, Thé, Lévêque 1903 jaune nuancé carmin

Magazine  (Nov 1903)  Page(s) 165.  
 
Rosiers Nouveaux de 1903 ....
Les rosiers nouveaux, dont suit la nomenclature, sont mis au commerce par rétablissement Lévêque et fils, à Ivry-sur-Seine :
Madame Achille Fould (thé). — Arbuste très vigoureux, feuilles vert foncé, fleurs très grandes, bien faites, globuleuses, jaune nuancé rose carminé vif, ombrées de cuivre rouge, de saumon, quelquefois unicolore rose clair saumoné ou rose carminé nuancé jaune, magnifique coloris, superbe.