[2] Flocon joined a group of republicans who prepared to overthrow the monarchy when the king died.

While he was editor La Réforme published articles from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Constantin Pecqueur, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

[1] Flocon spoke on Robespierre's 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen at the banquets held before the February Revolution of 1848.

[2] The positions of power in the Provisional Government were mainly given to moderate republicans, although Étienne Arago was made Minister of Posts and Marc Caussidière became Prefect of Police.

Alexandre Martin ("Albert"), Louis Blanc and Flocon did not get ministerial portfolios, and so had little power.

He moved to Strasbourg, where he edited le Démocrate du Rhin, a bi-lingual newspaper.

[13] Flocon spoke out against 2 December 1851 coup d'état in which Louis Napoleon came to power, and was banished from France.

[12] He moved to Switzerland, where he continued to agitate for democracy and worked as a bookseller in Geneva and Lausanne.