Son of Louis Cécile Flacheron, architect of the City of Lyon, he was a student of Révoil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, whose courses he followed from 1824 to 1827 , then worked with Ingres in Paris. He then went to Rome, where he made long stays on several occasions. He began in Paris in 1833, with views of Italy and exhibited historical landscapes, landscapes and some seascapes in Paris and Lyon. In Paris, in 1841, he obtained a 3rd class medal with Cain after the murder of Abel. His landscapes usually represent the Roman countryside, and, since 1861, sites in Provence or Algeria. He engraved some etchings.