[2] On December 8, 1851, he married Marie Odile Daigre, the daughter of a farmer in Baton Rouge[2] and initially lived with her family in Manchac, Louisiana.
In 1856, Persac along with William G. Vail opened a daguerreotype photography studio on Florida Street in Baton Rouge.
[3][4] The daguerreotype photography studio did not last long, and Persac went on to work as an artist and lithographer for the press Pessou and Simon.
[3] By 1867, his listed his profession in the New Orleans city directory as architect and moved his studio to 83 Exchange Place.
He died on July 21, 1873, in Manchac, Louisiana, at the Daigre family house and he is buried at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Baton Rouge.