Damirón was born in Mâcon, France and established a printing business in Venezuela, where he lived the rest of his life.
[1] Damirón moved with his family from Saint Thomas to Caracas in 1827, where he quickly received a letter of security to reside in Venezuela.
In 1830, he acquired from Colonel Francisco Avendaño a lithograph workshop located in the port of La Guaira where he began printing colored decks or cards on wooden planks.
In 1832 he moved his lithograph printshop to Caracas where he continued to print colored cards which were sold domestically as merchandise imported from Spain.
[1] Towards the end of his life, Damirón donated some of the land from his estate to create the municipality of Democracia.