Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri

In 1843, she married the pioneering photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, partnering with him in their Brest daguerrotype studio from the late 1840s.

[2] In 1872, she moved to Paris, opening a studio in the Rue du Bac where she was possibly assisted by her son Jules.

[3] She was one of the first female professional photographers in the world, active only shortly after Bertha Beckmann and Brita Sofia Hesselius.

She was the daughter of an industrialist, Nicolas Francart and Geneviève Joséphine Ternois, her father worked in the city called Brest also in France.

Later on, she met Adolphe Disdéri,[citation needed] a French photographer who began his career as a daguerreotypist.

Her two photographs were called "Ruins of the abbey of Pointe St Mathieu next to Brest" and "Cimetière de Plougastel" (Group in the Plougastel-Daoulas cemetery).