Later on, acting on the advice of Mechitarist fathers, the family migrated to live in Paris.

In France, they founded two notable educational institutions for Armenian nobility: The Collège Raphaël in Paris, followed by the Collegio Moorat in Venice.

[2] Many Italian celebrities, such as Andrea Maffei or Antonio Fogazzaro, visited their home when she was a child.

[1][3] She was very emotionally dependent on her family because of her depressive moods and although she was a precocious writer, she did not publish her first book, Leggenda eterna, until 1900.

In 1901, she married Guido Pompilj, a well-known member of parliament,[4] and later the Italian Undersecretary of State.