She held a salon in Paris and she was awarded the knighthood of the Legion of Honour.

Her Villa Torre Clementina in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is an official historical monument.

[1] Ernesta Stern was born on December 8, 1854, in Trieste, Austrian Empire.

[1] For example, her 1916 novel Le Baptême du courage is about World War I.

Her house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture.