Ƙarshe ya isa Paris a 1847 kuma ya kasance ta hanyar
Juyin Juya Halin; karɓar ƙarin shekara guda a kan karatun sa. Ba da daɗewa ba sunansa ya zama sananne a cikin labaran labarai na gida kuma ya kasance a can har ma ya fi tsayi. A shekara ta 1853, an ba shi damar yin tafiya tare da balaguron Faransa zuwa Istanbul. Na ɗan lokaci, ya zauna tare da Jakadan Faransa, Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, kuma ya zana hoton Sultan Abdülmecid I. A cikin waɗannan shekarun, ya kuma sami kwamiti daga Napoleon III kuma ya koyi yadda ake ɗaukar daguerrotypes kai tsaye daga Louis Daguerre, kafin mutuwarsa.