At the age of 19 years, he left Brittany with a good job as a decorator and in Paris studied with Leon Bonnat and Luc-Olivier Merson.

After marrying the painter, Anne Marie "Ketty" Lederer (1882–1964), the couple set up a villa at Abd-el-Tif where a number of Oriental artists were already established.

During the Abd-el-Tif period, Carré made many drawings of Orientalist scenes; The Gypsies of Granada, The Jews of Morocco, The Courtesans of Biskra, The Arab in Prayer and The Woman with the Tambourine.

Carré travelled extensively moving as far south as Biskra and spending most of 1911 in Spain while his wife pursued independent projects.

[2] In 1921, with the painters Louis Ferdinand Antoni and Marius de Buzon [fr], he decorated the new halls of the Palais d'Eté, designed tourist posters, models of postage stamps for the Bank of Algeria.