'Belle de Terre Franche' Ivan Louette's Yellow-blend OP seed

Check this out on HMF very interesting rose from Ivan Louette in Belgium.

‘Belle Amour’ is interesting in itself. I posted this on Gardenweb but I thought I could share my find with you guys.

Pretty stunning. Other than ‘Marianne’ I can’t think of any other yellow roses derived from the gallica/alba/damask OGR rose clans in first generation outside of the spins and asian yellows like primula.

M. Louette’s website looks amazing for information about breeding in the 19th century. Anyone know French fluently? I can glean some information but not as much as I’d like.

I can help you, french is my native language.

Google translate helps me a lot to understand idioms I never learned

Many Yvan Louette papers are at lest partly translated: At you will find: