Over the centuries, Turin’s manufacturing industry has seen some outstanding personalities of Waldensian descent, including Michel Peyrot. Born in Torre Pellice, in the Waldensian Valleys, he was a shopkeeper and owner of a spinning mill. He was also an active member of the Waldensian community and was elected in 1849 in the first Consistory of his  town church.

When he died in 1869, his widow Caroline Arnaud - descendant of an important Waldensian family,  great-granddaughter of the Waldensian Pastor Henri Arnaud - and his ten children bought burial plot  number 31.

The year after the purchase, they added a monument with a sculpture by Giovanni Garino. In the inscriptions Michel Peyrot was described as " very loving husband and father and a totally upright and honest in trade". Caroline Arnaud died in 1870 and was also buried there. At the end of the structural work, marble busts were places, and in 1881 the tondo with Enrico Peyrot’s portrait, one of the couple's sons, was added.