He started with the painter-decorator Hugues Martin, then joined the Dockain wallpaper factory, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine [fr] in Paris.
[2] Diéterle had the Second French Empire as a sponsor and realized a service in a style called Pompeian for prince Napoleon.
Indeed, he lived in a marriage from 1851 with Ann Nugent Woodger, separated from her husband[note 6] and mother of Émilie Louise Honorine Gardie.
[6] Édouard Bénazet (1801–1867), a French businessman, fermier des jeux and successor in this capacity to his father Jacques Bénazet (1778–1848)[note 7] entrusted Séchan, Diéterle and his brother-in-law, Louis Jules Haumont, with the decoration of the four lounges of the casino, nicknamed the "Maison de Conversation" in Baden-Baden in 1853.
[9] In 1863, he built the villa "Les Charmilles" in Yport, while his eldest son Georges Diéterle, moved to a farm in 1870 in Criquebeuf-en-Caux, "La ferme des roses".
[9] Upon the death of Diéterle, the villa in Yport was sold to the landscape painter and portraitist Albert Fourié [fr] (1854–1937).
[15] The end of his life was saddened by the painful events of 1870–71, during which he courageously refused to leave Paris, despite his age and his already very shaky health.