Born on June 24, 1923, in St. -Genis-Laval, near Lyon, he was the fifth and, by his account, the most shy of seven children from a bourgeois family that expected him to take up a respectable vocation.

里布于1923年6月24日出生于里昂附近的圣热尼拉瓦勒，一个中产阶级家庭的第五个孩子，据他自己说，他是七个孩子中最害羞的那个，家里希望他能有个体面的职业。