[5] Jeanne Adèle Bernard was born in Périgueux in the Dordogne in 1868.

[6] She bought the chateau of Château-l'Évêque, the former summer palace of the Bishop of Périgueux, in 1923.

[1] Sacerdote opened her first shop at 1 rue de Castiglione in 1909.

By 1915 her premises at 70, Champs-Élysées, included 22 workshops, a restaurant, and showrooms decorated by Robert Mallet-Stevens.

[2][1] Sacerdote became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1926, for services to fashion.