[1] She was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Sasserno, a former aide of André Masséna, and Marie Sibille Chartroux.

[5] Although she wrote in French she considered herself Italian so she dedicated her work Les Sylphides (1838) to King Charles Albert of Sardinia.

[5] Her attachment to Nice, which she calls her homeland, is also a recurring theme in her poems.

One entitled Physionomies nationales describes several regional costumes, of which two are of the Land of Nice.

[5] She was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Lyon.