Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 312.  
 
L'Idéal Noisette, medium red, 1887, Nabonnand, G. Description.

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 270.  
 
Idéal is essentially a Rose for this coast [Riviera]. In spring it even rivals Fortune's Yellow, but it comes in several weeks later and is deeper in its rosy tones. Did it but bloom at all in winter it would be unsurpassable.

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 380.  
 
L'Idéal (N.).-Metallic red ; vigorous. A strong-growing garden Rose. Distinct and charming in colour. (Autumn-flowering)

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 57.  
 
L'Ideal  This had much more red than normal in the class, and was praised for its qualities as a free standing shrub.  I include it, though I have never seen it, and do not know that it still exists.  It was later used to breed ramblers, and therefore has some importance.  Its coppery pink made quite a stir, until the Pernetianas overhauled it.  Raised by Gilbert Nabonnand of Golfe Juan, France;  introduced 1887.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 358.  
 
Idéal, L' (noisette) Nabonnand 1887; metallic carmine-red, shaded and washed bright golden-yellow, large, semi-double, fine form, fragrance 8/10, floriferous, growth 8/10, climbing. Sangerhausen

Article (misc)  (7 Mar 1935)  Page(s) 97.  
 
L'Idéal one of the roses that did well on the Côte d'Azur and which the author believed would be suitable for California and Florida... red and coppery yellow

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 207.  
 
Walter Easlea.  Reminiscences.
I well remember the excitement caused when we exhibited baskets of 'William Allen Richardson', L'Ideale',  'Ma Capucine', 'Marie van Houtte' etc.  Our method of cutting was to take the baskets to various points in the nursery in late afternoon, cut the blooms and put them at once into the bottles, which were embedded in moss.  They went by road in a large van, and staged just as they were cut with all their lovely buds, and no wires, and if they were not so grand as our present day exhibits, I maintain they were more natural, mainly because the decorative Roses of today are mutilated by disbudding.

Book  (1934)  
 
L’Ideal (N.): Flower geranium-lake, changing to turkey red, base Indian yellow, large, semi-double, very sweet. Growth vigorous, floriferous. A. Exh.

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 67.  
 
Editor. Ye Olde Time Roses.
L'Ideal, a noisette, is another of the mixed colours that was greatly admired in days gone by, with its yellow and metallic red petals streaked with golden yellow; very pretty indeed, and well worth growing.

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 193.  
 
L'Ideal. Nabonnand, 1887. Lovely old Noisette, with big, coppery pink and golden-yellow flowers. Extremely tender. Valuable only in the South.