She moved with her parents, Napoleon Tiffon (a "pedicure artist") and Marie Casan, to Barcelona in 1846, where they settled using the name "Napoleón".
In 1853, they settled into a small photography shop on the second floor of the boulevard in front of Santa Monica parish church.
[2] There is evidence of their activity in the La Rambla neighborhood from a notice published on July 31, 1853 in Correo de Barcelona.
After acquiring the Lumière cinématographe, they opened a film theater on La Rambla de Santa Mónica and another on Avenida del Parelelo.
They abandoned cinematography in 1908, but their photography studio was passed to their children, and after being run by three generations of the family,[3] eventually closed in 1968.