1. Albert Londres was a French journalist and writer.
14 Facts About Albert Londres
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Albert Londres criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour.
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Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists.
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Albert Londres wrote occasional articles for newspapers from his native region, and published his first poetry in 1904.
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Albert Londres's job was to listen to gossip in corridors of the French parliament and report it in anonymous columns.
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Albert Londres wanted to go to the Orient; the editors of Matin refused.
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In 1920, Albert Londres succeeded in entering the USSR, described the nascent Bolshevik regime, profiled Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky and told of the suffering of the Russian people.
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Albert Londres covered Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi and Tagore in India.
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Albert Londres became interested in the Tour de France, which he saw as pitiless and intolerable physical exertion in this "Tour of Suffering", and criticised the rules.
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Albert Londres met the Jewish community and came face to face with an outcast people.
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Albert Londres declared himself in favour of the creation of a Jewish state, but doubted peace between the Jews and the Arabs.
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Albert Londres next went to the Balkans to investigate the terrorist actions of the Bulgarian Komitadjis from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
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Albert Londres was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.
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Albert Londres almost certainly was an inspiration to Belgian cartoonist Herge, who created the fictional investigative journalist Tintin.