Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Andrée Malebranche a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba 1916 a Port-au-Prince, Haiti zuwa Clio (née Lemaire) da Lelio Malebranche. Girma a cikin dangi mai wadata, burinta na yin aiki a matsayin mai zane-zane hanya ce da ba ta saba ba a wancan lokacin, amma tun daga ƙuruciya, Malebranche tana son koyon zane-zane. A lokacin yarinta, Amurka ta mamaye Haiti
, wanda ke da tasiri mai zurfi a kan burinta na shawo kan murkushewar al'adun Afirka da Haiti. Bayan kammala karatunta na farko a makarantu masu zaman kansu, ta halarci École Normal kuma ta kammala karatu a 1938. Yayin da aka nada mahaifinta a matsayin jakadan Haiti a Cuba, Malebranche ta ci gaba da karatunta a Ciriulo da Bella Artes a Havana, inda ta sami digiri na farko a shekarar 1941.