Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize, the Prix Albert-Londres, for Francophone journalists.

His job was to listen to gossip in corridors of the French parliament and report it in anonymous columns.

Londres' first big article told of the fire in the cathedral on 19 September 1914; the report was published two days later.

In 1919 he was sacked by Le Petit Journal under the orders of the French Prime Minister Clemenceau.

Continuing his vocation, Londres reported that "the Italians are very unhappy with the peace conditions concocted by Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson."

In 1920, 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.

From 1922 his articles began to be published as books by Albin Michel through Henri Béraud, literary editor of Le Petit Parisien.

During his stay in French Guiana, he visited Marie Bartête[3] who was sentenced on 4 June 1888 for shoplifting.

[3] In 1924 he investigated forced labour in North Africa, where military prisons welcomed convicts of courts-martial.

(Chez les fous (With the Mad)) In 1928, still with the Petit Parisien, he travelled to Senegal and French Congo, and discovered that railway construction and exploitation of the forests was causing deaths among African workers.

He concluded with a critique of French policy in Africa, which he compares negatively, with the British or Belgium colonialism.

He next went to the Balkans to investigate the terrorist actions of the Bulgarian Komitadjis from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France.

[6] He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres.

The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash.

Londres almost certainly was an inspiration to Belgian cartoonist Hergé, who created the fictional investigative journalist Tintin.