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- Albert Londres was born on November 1, 1884 in Vichy, Allier, France. He was a writer, known for Autour d'une évasion (1934), Journey to the South (1988) and Les amants du bagne (2004). He died on May 16, 1932 in Aden, Yemen.
- Albert Londres was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, Londres not only reported news but created it, and reported it from a personal perspective. He criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists.
- His daughter Florise Albert-Londres (1904-1975) author and journalist , created the Prix Albert-Londres in 1933.
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