Double flowers, dark blue-violet. The last listing given by Magnus Johnson for this cultivar is in 1935. Riekstina has 'Claude le Sorrain' on a list of 77 cultivars introduced into Latvia between 1870 and 1910 and we guess that this is the same plant. It now appears to be lost from cultivation - please contact us if you know otherwise. Named after Claude de Lorraine a French nobleman in the first half of the 16th century.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Lemoine et fils
Country of origin:	France
Date raised:  r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	1878
Other name(s):	Claude le Lorrain; Claude de Lorrain; Claude le Sorrain