A pleasant surprise

This rose was sold as Cardinal de Richelieu. It was clearly not. I believe it belongs to the Gallica class, like Cardinal de Richelieu. It is also in the purple color, but nowhere near as dark as Cardinal de Richelieu.
This rose would grow straight up to about 8 feet,on thin canes then in the spring, the weight of the blooms would bend the canes over. The new growth would then shoot straight up and the cycle would repeat. It wound up building a 12 foot tall by 8 feet wide shrub. The rose also had suckers which caused it to spread out a little as well. I had this rose in Georgia, and wish that I had brought it to Oregon with me.