Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Lion des Combats’
Hybrid Perpetual.  The flowers of ‘Lion des Combats’ are reddish-violet in colour, sometimes shaded crimson-scarlet, velvety, large and full in form.  It is a robust grower.  Thomas Rivers considered the flowers to be not finely shaped.  [Paul (1863, 1888), FC p.228/1857, Gard. Chron. (1856, 1857), Rivers 1854].
 
History at Camden Park
Included in a handwritten list of roses dated 1861, probably intended for a new edition of the catalogue that was never printed.  [MP A2943].  This rose was also included in the bill of lading for roses sent from Veitch’s Nursery, Chelsea on Dec, 31st, 1859 on board the ‘Hollinside’ but found dead on arrival.

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 288.  
 
Lion des Combats
Hybrid Perpetual
Clémence Lartay 1850

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 173.  
 
Lion des Combats Hybrid Perpetual. Lartay 1850. The author cites information from different sources... Reddish-violet, often shaded with scarlet... dark red nuanced flame...

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 423.  
 
Lion des Combats (HP) Lartay 1850; dark purple-violet, shaded and lined fire-red, large, double, floriferous, growth 7/10, robust. = Beauté française.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Lion des Combats, HR, Lartay, 1850, rouge violacé, syn. Beauté française

Article (magazine)  (1 Feb 1898)  Page(s) 23.  
 
[From a talk by Léon Chénault at the Conference of Rosarians at Orléans, published in "Journal des Roses"]
Lion des Combats (Lartay, 1850), ne diffère en rien de Beauté française du même obtenteur 1868.

Translation:
Lion des Combats (Lartay, 1850), does not differ at all from Beaute française by the same breeder in 1868.

Website/Catalog  (1894)  Page(s) 177.  
 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses.
Leon des Combats. Bright rosy lilac; very large, full, fine form.

Magazine  (1 Mar 1882)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Synonymie des Roses [article by Joseph Schwartz]
...Il se trouve parmi la synonymie des Roses, des cas tous particulières où les vendeurs ne peuventz invoquer des circonstances atténuantes, attendu qu'il doivent bien connaïtre les plantes qu'ils ont eux-mêmes livrées au commerce. Ainsi celui qui a obtenu et mis dans le commerce la rose hybride Lion des Combats, l'a revendu plus tard sous le nom de Beauté Française...

Website/Catalog  (1880)  Page(s) 238.  
 
Rosiers Hybrides (remontants). Rosa Hybrida.
325. Le Lion des combats. — Grande, pleine, carmin vif nuancé feu, très-belle.

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 70.  
 
hybrid perpetual, LE LION DES COMBATS (Lartay, 1851), dark red shaded with fire-red, large, double, floriferous, very vigorous.