During the nineteenth century, many young Waldensians decided to turn to business in Turin, soon entering the varied and vast world of the city's middle class. In the Evangelical cemetery there are several gravestones belonging to industrialists,  entrepreneurs or simple shopkeepers, including that of Jean Bert, originally from the Germanasca Valley and for some years owner of a shop in the Piedmontese capital.

The young merchant, who died in 1874, is buried in grave 35, together with his young wife Caroline Frache, a descendant of an important family originally from Torre Pellice.

In 1875, at the end of the structural works, the sculptor Stefano Argenti from Vigevano was called for the monument, and he created an altar-piece in neo-Gothic style with two mullioned windows below which the busts of the spouses and  Jean Bert’s commemorative plaques were placed: he is remembered as "honnête dans le commerce loyal parmi les amis" (honest in trade and loyal to his friends) - Caroline and  her father Henri Frache.