There he received assistance from Édouard Boyer and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent with his photography-related chemistry experiments.

[3][4][5] After a year in Nîmes he moved to Paris, enabling easy access to people who would be the subjects of his cartes de visite.

According to a German visitor, Disdéri's studio became "really the Temple of Photography – a place unique in its luxury and elegance.

[9] The fact that these photos could be reproduced inexpensively and in great quantity brought about the decline of the daguerreotype and ushered in a carte de visite craze as they became enormously popular throughout Europe and the United States.

At the pinnacle of his career, Disdéri had been extremely wealthy and renowned; but like another photographer, Mathew Brady, he is reported to have ended his life penniless.