Rosine Boumendil and Amar divorced when she was 38 and she remarried a merchant, Mordecai Chemouil.[3] They lived in a villa called the Villa des Fleurs in Algiers, where she opened a literary salon.[3] Quickly, she became as a storyteller, claiming that her stories were passed down to her by her mother and grandmother, and therefore are part of the rich folk heritage of her native region.[3] She was encouraged by literary critics, such as Louis Bertrand, to send her stories to literary magazines.[3][2]