Not much is known about Louis Dodero of Marseilles other than he is credited for inventing the Carte de visite

Carte de visite

The carte de visite was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero...

. More often than not, this credit is erroneously given to André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card...

 who popularised the use of this type of photograph mostly because of his good fortune to be in the right place and the right time during Napoleon III's visit to his studio.