Website/Catalog  (2016)  
 
The plant directory of the Landscape Park Schönbusch near Aschaffenburg of 1783 includes a rose list which gives new insights into "early Roses". This was first published by Mr. Albert Jost in the Magazine Zandera (2010).
The directory is the earliest known document to date that lists new Roses with French names in a considerable scope. This type of name-giving was typical for Daniel August Schwarzkopf, the Court Gardener at Kassel. Many roses which are liste in the Schönbusch Directory were oviously obtained from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, Hesse, as several of the listed sorts were provenly obtained there. Moreover Christian Bode, the Court Gardener in Schönbusch, had came there in 1781 from Kassel, where he had been educated in the princely gardens.
For this reason, several of the early roses which were thought to be of Dutch or French origin, should be assumed now to be German obtentions.
Examples are:
'Aimable Rouge' (1783)
'Rose Incomparable' (1783)
'Belle sans Flatterie' (1783)
'Manteau Pourpre' (1783)
'Soleil Brillant' (1783)

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 237.  
 
Soleil Brillant Agathe. Holland date uncertain -1790

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 89.  
 
Soleil Brillant ('Incomparable', 'Invincible') [Translation: "Bright Sun"] Agatha. Holland, pre-1790. The author cites information from different sources... Bright red... Deep pink... This flower has the size of the Centifolia... a pretty variety with a nice perfume...

Article (newsletter)  (Feb 1999)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Soleil Brillant Before 1790... one of 15 Dutch gallicas that definitely or probably originated in the Low Countries and which are still in cultivation today

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 107-108.  Includes photo(s).
 
Soleil Brillant ('Hypathia' ?) Gallica. Pays-Bas (?), before 1790... an old variety that one finds mentioned in the catalogue of François of 1790... French nurserymen imported many roses from Holland, so it's possible that this variety may have originated there... 'Soleil Brillant' can be found in Descemet's catalog of 1803, Guerrapain's Almanach of 1811, and in the 1819 and 1820 catalogs of Vibert. In 1912, Gravereaux concluded, after reviewing Gallicas from the First Empire, that 'Soleil Brillant' and 'Hypathia' were synonymous. If you examine both varieties which grow at L'Haÿ -- and that is the only public collection Joyaux knows of where 'Soleil Brillant' can be found -- the two varieties appear to be identical... 'Hypathia' is sometimes classed as a Centifolia...

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 671.  
 
Soleil brillant (Provins) ? ? ; deep pink = Invincible; Agathe incomparable.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 153.  
 
9.919. Soleil brillant, Provins, rose foncé

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 163.  
 
Soleil brillant, Provins, rose foncé, dans l'Almanach de Guerrapain

Website/Catalog  (1820)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Provins. No. 728 Soleil brillant

Book  (1811)  Page(s) 102.  
 
Soleil Brillant.
Le Soleil Brillant mérite de trouver sa place dans cette classe. Cette variété n'aucun caractère assez frappant dans son bois, ses feuilles et ses aiguillons.
Les boutons de la fleur sont ordinairement d'un vert jaune, le calice est ovale.
Cette fleur est de la grandeur des Cent Feuilles et aussi double, sans étamines, d'un rose foncé, sans nuances, pétales frisés et chiffonés. Cette une jolie variété, d'une odeur agréable.